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Editorial Page... 


He took the courageous step 
of a great Canadian 


id ‘there had ever been ony serious doubts 

-of the courage and the integrity of Prime 
Minister St. Laurent, his blast against the 
Duplessis regime in Quebec has settled them 
once and for all. What the Prime Minister 
has done is clear —- at a time when he might 
be expected to look mainly for peace and 
quiet, he has challenged the Quebec premier 
to a test of strength that could settle the 
question of Canadian unity for a generation 
to come. - 


Ever since the publication of the report 
of the Rowell-Sirois commission, the Liberal 
Government at Ottawa has been in favor of 
a system of fiscal aids to the provinces from 
the national treasury. It has suggested that 
the provinces should vacate certain fields of 
taxation —- like income and _ corporation 
taxes. The Dominion would be able, then, 
to overcome the injustice of people and cor- 
porations earning profits in one province 
and being taxed on those profits by another 
province. - 


The first Rowell Sirois proposals were 
deemed to be inadequate. In the end, much 
more generous terms were arranged and as 
a result of wise Liberal policies adopted by 
Ottawa the provinces were restored to sol- 
vency and achieved a large measure of 
financial independence. Two provinces, 
however, held out against any truck or trade 
with Federal subsidies. One was Ontario 
under Premier George Drew. The other was 
Quebec under Premier Maurice Duplessis. 


The objections which the central prov- 
ince premiers had to the Federal scheme 
were never too.clear to the rest of the coun- 
try. Once Mr. Drew was elected leader of 
the national Conservative party, his suc- 
cessor in Ontario, Premier Frost, quickly ar- 
rived at an agreement with the Dominion. 
That left Mr. Duplessis as the only remaining 
hold-out. 


Mr. Duplessis’ great popularity in Que- 
bec has been demonstrated at several elec- 
tions. He has easily defeated any Liberal 
opposition sent against him. The basis of 
his popularity lay in his appeal to the strong- 
ly nationalist streak of his compatriots in 
Quebec. There has arisen in that province 
a large body of French-Canadian opinion 
which believes that Quebec's destiny lies 
outside Canada—as an independent French- 
Canadian nation on the shores of the St. 
Lawrence. 


Not even Mr. Duplessis has taken the 
first steps toward taking Quebec out of 
Canada. What he has done, in season and 


out, has been to denounce the Ottawa gov-.. 


ernment as centralizers — people who wish- 
ed to subordinate the interests of French 


Catholic Quebec to English-speaking Pro- 


testant Canada.- He has needled Ottawa 
with every means at his command. He has 
imposed: his own income tax and demanded 
that Ottawa permit it to be deducted from 


income before computing the federal tax. 
Ottawa has refused, so Premier Duplessis 
has tried to blame the extra burden of taxes 
in Quebec on Ottawa. He has, as well, 
issued orders barring all educational institu- 
tions in Quebec from accepting grants from 
the federal treasury. 


He has sought, continually, with every 
means he could devise to weaken the 
bonds which tied Quebec to Canada. At 
last, on a warm Saturday in September, 
Prime Minister St. Laurent loSt his temper. 
That is clear from -the language he used in 
his speech to 300 Liberal organizers in Que- 
bec. 


What he was doing, in effect, was going 
over the head of Premier Duplessis to the 
people of Quebec. He lashed out not only 
at Premier Duplessis for his disruption of 
Canadian unity. He took issue with the 
philosophers of the Quebec separatist move- 
ment and did not dodge the religious issue. 


Many of the issues that the Prime Min- 
ister raised have long disturbed the unity 
of this country. A less courageous man 
would have left them lie for some successor 
i worry about. At 72, the Prime Minister 
was surely entitled to seek peace and quiet 
rather than open political warfare. But he 
became convinced that if the festering sore 
of nationalist bigotry was not to infect the 
whole country #{ would have to be excis- 
ed, and done at once. And the more he 
considered it, the clearer it became that it 
was a job that nobody else could do but 
himself. So he lit the torch for Quebec to 
follow. 


Prime Minister St. Laurent’s challenge to 
Premier Duplessis is an act of political cour- 
age for this reason: Premier Duplessis is one 
of Canada’s most astute politicians who has 
built up great personal popularity in Que- 
bec. During the last decade, Quebec 
electors have come to support him from 
force of habit. In provincial elections, 
they've gone gaily to the polls and voted to 
Duplessis. Then, in federal elections, they 
have turned around and supported St. Laur- 
ent with even greater enthusiasm. 


The Prime Minister’s challenge will put 


an end to that sort of nonsense, for Mr. St. , 


Laurent has faced Quebec with an either-or 
choice. It must choose between St. Laurent 
and Duplessis and in the process it must 
choose between taking the path of true 
nationalism or narrow parochialism. It will 
be a painful decision indeed; and a decision 
which might go either way. Our hope is 
the hope of all the rest of Canada — that the 
Prime Minister will carry the day and get 
Quebec back into step and partnership with 
the rest of Canada. 


It seems to us that this has been one of 
the greatest acts of patriotism Canada has 
seen in her whole political life. At such a 


critical time, this is surely a tortunate na- 
tion in belng led by a man of Mr, &t. 
Leurent’s courage. To have taken the steps 
he did must have tried him sorely. But 
he took them because he was convinced the 
national interest demanded that they be 
taken. 


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Talk about 


crazy laws! 


OVERS of Dickens and Oliver Twist will 

recall the classic phrase Mr. Bumble: 

“If the law supposses that, the law is a ass, 
a idiot!" 

We were reminded of Mr. Bumble’s 
phrase by a couple of recent decisions of 
the Income Tax Appeal Board. One decision 
made sense, the other was preposterous. On 
one hand it was held that a farmer who sold 
the top soil from his farm was selling a capi- 
tal asset. As such his income from it was 
not subject to taxation. A little later the 
same board ruled that a farmer who sold 
natural gas from his farm was not selling 
a capital asset and the income he got from 
the sale of his gas and oil was taxable. 

To our way of thinking the test of a 
capital asset is a simple one: Is it replace- 
able or reproduceable? If it is not, it's a 
capital asset. The difference between the 
top soil on a farm and the grain that ‘it 
produces is clear and beyond doubt. Grain 
con be produced indefinitely by planting 
seeds and harvesting. But once all the top 
soil is removed, the farmer is out of business 
for no more grain can be grown. 


In plain fact, there is more reason of 
treating natural gas and oil as a capital 
asset than there is top soil. Once the oil is 
produced it is gone forever. But land from 
which the top soil has been skimmed off 
may, under special management, be brought 
back into production. After the dry years, 
we learned a good deal about nature's 
ability to heal the scars of water and wind 
erosion. Some fainsh kinds of crops have 
been grown on soi] from which most of the 
topsoil had blown off. 


There is, we say, some reason for hold- 


‘ing that the sale of top soil is not altogether 


the realization on a capital asset. It would 
depend on how much of the soil was sold. 
But surely there can be no reason whatever 
for holding that oil and gas are not parts of 
a farmer's land which once removed are 
gone forever. Top soil can be reproduced. 
Gas and oil cannot. 


It seems to us that,two things must flow 
from this decision. First the Dominion Gov- 
ernment ought to take a look at this, and 
some of the other asinine decisions it is 
getting from the Income Tax Appeal Board. 
There was one handed down some months 
ago in connection with the Horse Meat Co- 
operative that was even worse than these. 
A few more decisions like these and the 
board will be brought into disrepute. 


The farm organizations of the West 
ought to see that an appeal from the oil 
and gas decision is taken to the Exchequer 
court. If in that court the law continues 
to be “a ass, a idiot” then Parliament should 
take steps to clarify it at the earliest possible 
moment. There are few enough farmers in 
Western Canada who own their mineral 
rignts. Even fewer have been lucky enough 
to find oil under their land. To tax them on 
the sale of this oil is an injustice which the 
farmers should not tolerate. 


The duck shooter nuisance - 


gets some attention 


HE Saskatchewan Government has hit 
upon an idea for controlling the duck 
hunter nuisance that makes good sense. It 
is arranging to appoint selected farmers in 
the worst areas as game wardens. All the 
authority usually vested in full-time game 
wardens will be vested in the farmer-war- 
dens. 


This is power that must needs be used 
with great circumspection and restraint. So 
great care will have to be exercised in the 
persons who are.sworn in as wardens under 
this plan. 


Naturally this step will be greeted with 
hoots and cat-calls by the professional tub- 
thumpers for the shooting business. But to 
us the fact that a government would take 
such action is an indication of the serious- 
ness of the damage that hunters have 
wrought im the West in recent years. This 
step was something the hunters brought on 
themselves. 


a it can be argued that the responsible 
* hunters are being penalized all the time for 
the irresponsible acts of the screwball min- 
ority. Perhaps this is so. But let’s get the 
thing into focus. Every farmer of western 
Canada is entitled to the peaceful enjoyment 
of his property. No city hunter has ‘any 
right to trespass on his property in pursuit of 
game of any kind. He does so only by leave 
of. the farmer who owns the land. 


Naturally, due to the cloudiness of the 
law of trespass, too many hunters have been 


guided by what they think they can get _ 


away with. They are not so much hunting 
ducks as engaging in a war of nerves with 
the farmers. The only thing a farmer can do 
is get madder and madder at the hunters 
and more and more ‘No Shooting” signs are 
being posted every year. 

The main complaint of farmers is not so 
much the shooting as the way shooters get 
access to the shooting. They go over and 


through fences, unaware that keeping fences 
in shape is an eridless chore. A few wires 
slackened, a few staples pulled loose and it 
may take a farmer and his family a whole 

ay rounding up his livestock from the four 
corners of the township. Gates left onen con 
have the same result. 


It happens that the mere responsible 
shooters have been lecturing their brethren 
for years about improving their shooting 
manners. The lectures are not being need- 
ed, that is certain. That is why the Sas- 
katchewan Government has taken this un- 
usual step. It will be interesting to see how 
it works out, and how quickly the idea 
spreads. 


Down with 
Aunt Sal and sugar! 


CRIME against civilization, or at least 
against civilized eating, was com- 
mitted in the Farm and Ranch last month. 
It was within our power to stop it, too, by 


merely editing the offending paragraphs out . 


of the Cdpy. We resisted the urge to censor, 
however, because’ we felt: that by letting it 
go we would provide ourselves with an ex- 
cuse to denounce one of the most disgusting 
habits of the times. That habit is the mis-use 
of sugar. 

Our Aunt Sal has carried the thing to its 
logical end — she’s come up with a recipe 
for—ugh! SWEET DILL PICKLES! Who, in 
the name of good eating, ever heard of such 
a sacrilege? Putting sugar in dill pickles! 


Anybody who'd put sugar in dill pickles 
would put sugar in whiskey. And, come to 


_ think of it, people are putting sugar in whis- 


key ! 

We've got nothing against sugar. It's a 
great food and makes otherwise unattractive 
food tasteful and apetizing. But even our 
Lethbridge subscribers will admit that you 
can get.too much of a good thing. When 
you do, the taste for it is permanently im- 
paired. Our taste for sweets must function 
in conjunction with our taste for, the sour 
and the bitter and the piquant. By sweeten- 
ing everything, as we do, wé will one day 
find it impossible to appreciate the taste of 
anything sweet. Who can appreciate sweet 
pickles who only sweet pickles knows? 
Enough of this mis-use of sugar! Let Aunt 
Sal bury her head in shame and in penance 
publish a whole column of recipes for sour 
pickles ! 


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I'd let Cyrano 
write my Creed 


By JAMES H. 


GRAY 


Do you have a favorite poetic passage you'd like to see in 
print again? Send it along and we'll try to work it 


in some time. Meanwhile, let Cyrano give 
your spirit a lift ! 


NE of the worst things which 

can be said about our age is 

this: Ethics has gone out of 

fashion. The search for a posi- 

tive means by which we can best 

live our lives now concerns al- 
most nobody. 

In the main, our religions are 
concerned with the hereafter; 
and economics, politics, sex and 
material possessions have sup- 
planted basic morality in the 
public interest. Yet there was 
once a time when the search for 
a basic code of behavior was the 
conscious activity of the best 
thinkers, the best philosophers 
and theologians. 


All this of course was in the 
day when the human spirit was 
valued for itself alone; when 
the common dignity of the in- 
dividual was sought and vener- 
ated. Men not only sought to 
devise or discover a workable 
moral code by which to order 
their lives; they tried to discov- 
er the perfect moral code. 

And it was this endless 
searching, this endless endeav- 
or to find the key to a good life 
for all mankind, that led to 
some of the finest writing ever 
put on paper by mortal man. It 
was writing that was capable of 
making a permanent imprint on 
the- people who read it. And 
this, it seems to me, was why 
the modern disregard for the 
works of history’s greatest 
poets, philosophers and teach- 
ers is such a tragedy. We can- 
not know the tremendous lift 
that it is possible to get from 
some of the wonderful thoughts 


CYRANO' 


that have been captured and 
preserved for us. 


For myself, the thing that is 
mainly wrong with our farm 
organizations today is the lack 
of a positive ethic. They are 
concerned with economics, with 
farm income and outgo and the 
price of this or that. How dif- 
ferent it was in the early days 
of the co-operative movement 
of the West when the people 
who were selling co-operatives 
were selling a religion, when the 
zeal for the co-operative had an 
ethical and not a material well- 
spring. 

Is it not possible, at least for 
a few fleeting moments now 
and then, to re-awaken the in- 
terest of mankind in the ethical 
life? Well, let’s try. Here, for 
example, i$ “Cyrano’s Creed”, 
the favorite passage of Mr. Len 
Nesbitt, the publicity director 
of the Alberta Wheat Pool. 


On the eve of the battle of 
the Plains of Abraham, General 
Wolfe lost himself in Gray’s 
Elegy and is supposed to have 
said he would rather have writ- 
ten that poem than take Quebec 
on the morrow. Well, for my 
part, I would rather have been 
the author of Cyrano’s creed 
than of any other work in our 
language. Why? Because I 
know that anyone who could 
summon up Cyrano’s_ noble 
words would live comfortably 
with himself and his conscience 
for as long as he lived. 


Here then, is the creed of» 
Cyrano de Bergerac : 


S CREED 


(Selected) 
“What would you have me do? cries Cyrano, 
Seek for the patronage of some great man, 
And like a creeping vine on a tall tree 
Crawl upward, where I cannot stand alone ? 
No thank you! Dedicate. as others do, 


Poems to pawnbrokers?... 


Make my knees 


Callous, and cutivate a supple spine. 
...- Scratch the back of any swine 
That roots up gold for me ?... No thank you ! 


“ Use the fire 


God gave me to burn incense all day long 

Under the nose of wood and stone? No thank you! 
“Calculate, scheme, be afraid... 

Seek instructions, favors, influences ? — 

No thank you! No, ] thank you! And again 


I thank you! — But... 


“To sing, to laugh, to dream, 
“ To walk in my own way and be alone. 
“To travel any road 
Under the sun, under the stars, nor doubt 
If fame or fortune lie beyond the bourne— 
Never,to make a line I have not heard 


In my own heart... 


- Iam too proud to be a parasite, 
And if my nature wants the germ that grows 
Towering to heaven like the mountain pine, _ 


Farm and Ranch Review—October, 1954—-Page 7 


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By MR. 


GEORGE McIVOR, 


Chief Commissioner of The Canadian Wheat Board, at a public hearing of 
of the United States Tariff Commission. 


|B hpficnser the period from Au- 
gust ist, 1953, to mid-De- 
cember, 1953, there was a sub- 
stantial demand for Canadian 
oats for shipment to the United 
States. In the main the demand 
came from the traditional areas 
of the United States which use 
Canadian oats having regard to 
the quality of the Canadian pro- 
duct and the costs involved in 
moving Canadian oats from the 
surplus produce areas in West- 
ern Canada to the deficit areas 


in. the United States. The de- 


mand for Canadian oats as ex- 
pressed: in terms of United 
States buying in the Canadian 
market and in the subsequent 
shipment of these oats to United 
States destinations, amounted to 
42.9 million bushels. 


Early in December last the 
Government . of the United 


States suggested that Canada 


might undertake to limit the ex- 
port of oats to the United States 
to a quantity of* 23 million 
bushels from the period Decem- 
ber 10th, 1953, to September 
30th, 1954. The Government of; 
Canada agreed to co-operate in 
this matter and for the period 


Specified the understanding be-. 


tween our two governments has 
governed the shipment of Cana- 
dian oats to the United States. 


I.mention this fact for the 
specific reason that The Cana- 
dian Wheat Board was called 
upon to administer the limita- 
tion as agreed upon; namely, the 
limitation of Canadian oats ex- 
ports for the period from De- 
cember 10th, 1953, to September 
30th, 1954. Fortunately we had 
within our command the neces- 
sary machinery to implement 
the limitation and I want to as- 
sure you the Canadian under- 
taking as suggested by the 
Government of the United 
States on December 7th and 
confirmed by the Government of 
Canada on December 14th last 
will be fully implemented on the 
Canadian side. 


It has not been easy for us to 
say “No” to-the trade in the 
face of a keen demand for the 
Canadian product within the 
deficit areas of the United 
States. However, I want to as- 
sure you that the Canadian ma- 
chinery of control worked 
smoothly and effectively and 
that on September 30th, 1954, a 
mutually satisfactory account- 
ing of the obligation suggested 
by the United States and as- 
sumed by Canada will be-possi- 
ble. I make this statement 
realizing that the exercise of 
such control is not one which 
normally appeals to a marketing 
organization such as our Board, 
nor to the private grain trade 


£ 


Out of our experience over 


the years we cannot but record 
the demand for Canadian oats 
in the chief deficit area in the 
United States as being a very 
basic and persistent demand. 
There was a very keen Ameri- 
can demand for oats in the fall 
of 1953 and when a limitation of 
exports of oats. to the United 
States was in effect our grain 
trade was constantly under 
pressure to supply a greater 
volume of oats than was possi- 
ble under the circumstances. 


I think I should point out to 
you that there has been a signi- 
ficant strengthening of Cana- 
dian oats prices in the last three 
months. This has been due to 
smaller commercial supplies of 
oats available in Western Can- 
ada and to some apprehension 


-ever the extent of the 1954 crop 


as well as demand factors. 


The trend of oats prices in 
Canada and the United States 
during the period from June 1st, 
1954, to September 1st, 1954, is 
shown in the following table : 


Winnipeg Minneapolis Chicago 


October ~ Sept. Sept. < 
Oats. Oats Oats 

June 1st 66% 645% 67% 
June 15th 674% 64% 69% 
July 2nd 69% 6645 70% 
July 15th 70%4 67% 72 
Aug. 8rd 73% 671% 73 
Aug. 16th 745% 6614 125% 
Sept. Ist 79 6834 T4A% 


“It will be noted that the Win- 
nipeg Octqber future increased 
by 12% cents per bushel and 
6%4 cents per bushel respec- 
tively. 
Naturally my. organization ~ 
follows. crop developments 
throughout the world with a 
great deal of care. We believe 
there will be a better interna- 


*tional demand for both wheat 


and feed grains in 1954-55 than 
in 1958-54. No doubt reference 
to this fact will be made to the 
Commission by the United 
States authorities. 


_I suggest that it is in the broader 
field of international trade in grains 
of all kinds that Canada and the 
United States can find the answer 
to our more immediate problems 
rather than in restricting the flow of 
farm products across our common 
border. 


Irrespective of the final out- 
come of 1954 oats crops.in Can- 
ada and the United States, it is 
apparent that both our coun- 
tries will have an exportable 
surplus of. feed grains as a 
whole. We both have to look 
for export markets for feed 
grains, which are interchange- 
able to a variable extent. I know 
that you will examine very care- 
fully whether limitations on the 


movement of oats as bean 
our two countries will result in 
a worth-while contribution to a. 
solution of the problem which 
“causes the reference before you. 


There are other factors from — 


the Canadian standpoint which 
you may wish to consider in con- 
nection with the references be- 
fore you. First of all I wish to 
refer to the fact that oats acre- 
age in Western Canada has been 
declining. Our war-time peak in 
oats acreages-in the Prairie 
Provinces was reached in 1943 
in which year 11,789,500 acres 
were seeded to oats. This was 
an unusually high acreage based 
upon national requirements at 
the: time. 


From this peak, oats acreage 
decreased steadily to 6,490,000 
acres in 1953 — the lowest oats 
acreage since 1915. The esti- 
mated oats acreage for 1954 is 
only fractionally higher than in 
1953 — 6,715,000 acres. You 
will see, therefore, that there 
has been a rather complete ad- 
justment in Western Canadian 
oats acreage to the increased 
mechanization of farms. 


I would like to make a few 
comments upon the production 


of oats in Canada. In 1953 Can-~ 


ada’s production of oats 
amounted to 
bushels. Of this total produc- 
tion 131.9 million bushels or 


32% was produced in areas out- 


side of Prairie Provinces of Can- , 


ada which are deficit areas as 
far as oats are concerned. 
Therefore, this part of the Cana- 
dian oats crop is used in the 
areas in which it is produced 
and does not enter into export 
channels except in negligible 
quantities. This means that the 
area which is significant to your 
enquiry is the Prairie Provinces 
of the west and the Peace River 
area of British Columbia. 


- In 1953 oats production in this 
significant area was 273 million 
bushels out of which producers 
marketed about 90 million bush- 
els. Had storage permitted prob- 
ably an additional 30 or 40 mil- 
lion bushels might have been de- 
livered into commercial chan- 
nels by producers — at the most 
180 million bushels. Of this 
quantity of commercial oats ap- 
proximately 50 million bushels 
is required for Canadian domes- 
tic use, leaving some 80 million 
bushels at the most for export 
and commercial reserves. For 
your information I would like to 


404.9 million 


-.. hesitate to call upon us. 


give you the quantities of oats 
delivered by western producers 
for a series of years: 


Million Bushels 
1953-54 (or aes 90 
1952-53. cee ee 112 
TORY HR De ee 127 
= Tsr ey ag cane pa 99 
1949-50 80 
1948-49 86 
1947-48 73 
TOAG=4 7 re as A 160 
1945-46 er cect 107 
N944-45 ih 134 


Now, Mr. Chairman, this is 
the commercial supply of oats 
which we have had over the 
years which is significant as far 
as your investigation is concern- 
ed. Supplies vary, of course, 
from year to “Year depending 
upon crop yields and the extent 
of livestock feeding in Canada 
and to a lesser extent upon in- 
dustrial demand. 


I submit, Mr. Chairman, that with 
approximately one-half of these 
commercial. marketings required in 
Canada that there has not been 

-over ‘the years a large surplus of. 
oats threatening the stability of ag- 

riculture in the United States and, 

having regard to the extremely low 

level of oats acreage in Western 

Canada, there is no_ long-term 

threat to any export market. The 

quantity of export oats in Canada 

may in certain years be heavier 

than in others, but I submit there 

is nqjhing in the Canadian oats pic- 

ture to lead one to the conclusion 

that over a period of years we have 

any more commercial oats in Can- 

ada than can satisfy our domestic 

requirements and meet export de-- 
mand including the demand which 

has demonstrated itself consistently 

in the United States. 


For this reason and in the in- 
terests of Canadian producers 
and in the interests of tradi- 
tional consumé¥s of Canadian 
oats in the United States I sub- 
mit a restriction on the importa- 
tion of Canadian oats into the 
United States is not necessary 
or advisable and will not 
make a significant contribution 
to the price problem you 
are examining... In many years 
in the- past American con- 
sumers have-been very glad to 
have been able to get a supply 
of oats from Canada and I sub- 
mit that this will be true in the 
future. The situation cannot be 
judged entirely on the basis of 
availability of oats in Canada in 
years of heavy yields per acre. 
Our history is that these years 
are offset by years of smaller 
production. I think the old ‘ex- 
pression of ‘“‘What you lose on 
the swings, you gain on the 
round-about” is applicable. Let |. 
us not get into the position of 
doing things today which are 
not required under ordinary cir- 
cumstances and which may 
create present and future prob- 
lems for both our countries. 


If there is any information of 
Canadian origin which will be 
helpful to you in the task you 
have in hand I hope you will not 


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PREDICTIONS are dangerous 
enough at any time, whe- 
ther: they concern markets or 


weather, but at least it is every-. 


body’s right to try to judge 
what’s ahead in his.own field of 
endeavor. There are some.spe- 
cial reasons why  cattlemen 
should. attempt to learn. what 
the future holds for them. 


Recent reports tell that the 
Province of Alberta has two 
million cattle, that Canada’s cat- 
tle have increased to 9,371,000 
head and that the United States 
which counted 77 million cattle 
in 1949, had a record 94,7000,000 
at the beginning of 1954. 


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ental total for cattle must repre- 
sent an all-time high. It will not 
be surprising, therefore, if such 


information about rising live- —~ 


stock numbers will produce 
fears of overproduction and 
market failures. But a closer 
examination of the position of 
livestock and meats on the 
North American continent 
should actually create confi- 
dence rather than fears. 


Livestock production has al- 
ways faced periodic “ups and 
downs”. Cycles in the cattle 
business have been strikingly 
clear and no marketing methods 
are likely to remove those ryth- 
mic changes in supply and de- 
mand because no marketing 
method would be capable of con- 
trolling all the forces that cause 
expansion .and contraction in 
production. With cattle, it is a 
12 or 15-year cycle and numbers 
are now coming up to a peak 
from which they can then be ex= 
pected to rece@e.in their own 
geod time. 


“In assessing either the im- 
mediate or more remote pros- 
pects for cattle, there is point in 
considering Canada and United 
States together because short- 
age or surplus in one country 
will certainly be felt in the 
other. Canadian cattlemen 
should not divert themselves of 
an interest “in the state of the 
cattle industry in the neighbor- 
ing nation and even in Mexico. 


Stable Markets 


One of the first points to be 
noted is that cattle markets 
have-remained surprisingly sta- 
ble during 1953 and 1954, in 
spite of the rising cattle popula- 
tion and unusually heavy mar- 
ketings. At a time which was 
considered critical because of 
extremely heavy deliveries, the 
people of Canada and United 
States virtually ‘ate their way 
out”, Canadian cattlemen who 
came to suppose that an export 
sale in the United States for 
300,000 head or more of their 
cattle was essential to their 
business, saw Canadian people 
consuming all the beef sent for- 


_lward to the domestic markets. 


Thanks to a flexible domestic 
appetite, a traditional prefer- 
ence for beef and good -pro- 
ducer-consumer relations, the 
Canadian cattle industry came 
through without much difficulty. 
In 1951, the last year of heavy 
cattle exports to the United 
States, the total slaughterings 
at inspected plants in Canada 
included 1,149,789 cattle and 
583,718 calves. In 1953, the 
slaughter figures for cattle and 
calves were 1,469,436 and 740,- 
723 respectively. ‘At the time of 
writing, it appears that the 1954 
marketings of both cattle and 
calves in Canada will be even 
higher than in 1953. 


Canada’s success in avoiding a 
serious market glut in cattle and 
perhaps a collapse at one time or 
another in these two years, has 
resulted directly from increased 
buying on the part of the consum- 
- ing public, as shown by ‘the rise in 

per capita consumption of beef. 

From an all-time low of 44.1 pounds 

of beef per capita in 1951, dbn- 

sumption figures rose slightly to 

44.7 pounds in 1952 and bullishly, to 

59.1 pounds in 1953. 


The average increase of 14.4 


‘pounds of beef for Canada’s 15 


million people, occuring in one 
year, must have accounted for 
an- additional 216 million 
pounds. If all carcasses weighed 
500 pounds each, that total in- 
crease in domestic consumption 
would represent an extra 432,- 
000 head of cattle. 

They slaughtered nearly 37 
million cattle'and calves in the 
United States in 19538 and the 
prospeets are that the 1954 kill 
will rise to 39 million or more, 
thus tending to reduce the huge 
cattle inventory of that country. 
Pig marketings are likely to bé 
10 per cent or 12 per cent higher 
in the fall of 1954 than“in the 
same season in 1953, but with 
consumer: buying power show- 
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table to householders, it is ex- 
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shown that, while it took 35 
minutes of an average American 
worker’s time to: earn the price 
of a pound of average beef dur- 
ing the depression years of the 
30s, in 1953, it took only 23.6 
minutes. This has been a big 
factor in promoting the soaring 
figures for meat consumption in 
that nation. 

Another factor tending to re- 
duce cattle and beef stocks in 
the United States has been 
weather. Severe drought has 
continued over much of the 
south-western States. “J. G. 
Ryan of Artesia, New Mexico, 
visiting Calgary recently, re- 
ported no rains .ef, any conse- 


Farm and Ranch Review—-October, 1954—-Page 11 


quence on his cattle range in 
the last four years. “There’s 
about as much grass on the floor = = a —_ 
of your office,” he said, as there ; . 
is on some of those New Mexico 
ranges. There have been some 
showers, all right, but “it’s like 
pouring a little water on a hot 
cook stove,” he added. 

Texas, Wyoming, Colorado 
and New Mexico, ‘all cattle 
states, have been designated as 
emergency areas_on account of 
drought and a number of others 
have applied to be included for 
the benefits. The inevitable re- | 
sult has been liquidation of meat 
animals which, in turn, must in- 
fluence later marketings. 

And in Old Mexico from 
whence a few hundred thousand 
head of cattle can be expected 
to cross the border into the 
United States in each of ordin- i 
ary years, there have been re- 
curring troubles. January 1, 
1955, is the date proposed for 
the re-opening of the United 
States borders to Mexican cat- 
tle, following the recent out- 
break of foot-and-mouth dis- 
ease. But to add to Mexican 
worries, there has been severe 
drought in that country, too. 


‘Trail 0 ° “fog 
Atmillion dollars 
ret, athlete please _ 


: oh . es $ . 
ONE ERT Snr Ee Imperials shopping bill is more than’l million a week 
duced feed shortage. ‘That num. hx ..thats what we spend 
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ruin because of the cattle losses. |_| needs. It doesnt include ! 


ber would represent about one- 
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eee 


third of Sonora’s total cattle 
population and some ranchers, it | 


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above estimates that even if the i de ‘ . 
American border were opened, Nor does it include wages, salar ies or faxes. 


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shipment. 
However debatable the im- | | | \ {o) | ° | . 
mediate cattle prospects may be, | (SY from soup (to feed geoiogica patties ) 
Le ee Me 
dispel fears céncerning markets _ to huts (io fit q few million bolts) - 
Sear the hums population 0 dicks J, dynamite “SEX and diesels 
to furnish meats at present ’ , * ad ll 
evels of consum n. ‘Canada’s 1a 
population ‘is growing steadily (cat crackers theyte called ) J Ao 1 
ing 200 millions béfore 1975. To 
maintain the present | level of . 
eat consumption in the Unite fime fiom coast to coaet, 
(Continued on page 12) Chopping on this scale 
VIz Creates a lot of work 


on January Ist, next, very few 
cattle would be available for ue, What do we buy:? Everything ... € 
an examination of long-time 
trends on this continent should 
North America i i 
from the continental capacity ; and even catalytic cracking units 
d the United States is addi . 
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Canada and United States, to- 
gether, have about 42 per cent 
more cattle than they had at the 
beginning of the present cen- 
tury, but on the basis of each 
thousand human mouths to be 
fed, they have only 66 per cent 
as many cattle. In 1900, the 
two countries had 900 cattle per 
thousand people and in 1954, 
they have only about,600 cattle 
per.thousand humans. 


Adding sheep and pigs does 
not materially change the pic- 
ture. When cattle, sheep and 
pigs are reduced to cattle units, 
(assuming that three pigs or 
five sheep would roughly equal 
one average head of cattle in 
productivity) the livestock pop- . 
ulation of both countries shows 
1,278 cattle units per thousand 
humans at the beginning of this 
country and 743 cattle units per 
thousand humans today. And 
so, although cattle numbers are 
said to be high, there is actually 
only 58 per cent as much poten- 
tial meat and milk production in 
relation to people-to be fed, as 
there was 54 years ago. 


As of’ 1954, Canadian livestock 
producers appear to be in a sound 
position. Feed supplies are gen- 
ally abundant; quality of output has 
been improved, the domestic appe- 
tite is keen and consumers are in- 
creasing faster than farm animals. 


Such observations are not 
to be construed as assurance 
against fluctuations in cattle 
prices. Everything else, includ- 
ing wheat, feels the effect of ups 
and downs in demand and live- 
stock production on-most of the 
seven million farms and ranches 
in Canada, United States and 
Mexico, can never be controlled 
and regulated to the point where 
there is perfect alignment be- 
tween supply and demand. 


Canada is one of the only two 
countries in the Northern Hemi- 
Sphere that is likely to have 
more of animal products than 
her own people will require. As 
the major consuming areas of 
this continent wil! feel the grow- 
ing pressures of increasing de- 


mand and diminishing supplies 


of high-protein foods, Canada’s 
grasslands must assume new 
importance. 


It means that the Canadian 
cattle industry and livestock in- 
dustry generally seem to. enjoy 
the promise of growing favor. 


“I got my deer right off the bat.” 


” 


E eall it The Tree. There 

- are two trees growing in 

_ the centre of the circular drive- 
way at the back of our home, 
but the twins are so closely as- 
sociated in growth and looks 
that we invariably refer to them 
singularly as The Tree. The 
species is Manitoba Maple, or 
Box Elder if you prefer that 
name. The.age is well over forty 

years, the sturdy trunks being 
planted as saplings when this 
house was built by a pioneer in 

1910. 

. We’ve lived in this location 

for seven years. When we first 

‘came, the double trunk of one 
.maple was splitting at the 
crotch. It forced a drastic prun- 

ing job and left The Tree look- 

ing like a skeleton. For a year 

it was only a distorted trunk 
and torso, without branches as 

arms or twigs as fingers. A 
squirrel ‘got stranded on the 

newly denuded tree one day and 

‘became panicked at not finding 
familiar shelter once provided 

‘by missing limbs. The poor 
beast ran: frantically over the 


stubby remains, then flung itself | 


groundwards and scampered to 
the refuge of an evergreen. 

But soon The Tree was beau- 
tiful again. A robin built a nest 
on the sawn top of one main 
trunk, where green shoots en- 
_eircled the nest to screen it from 
prying eyes. A purple: finch 


chose a lesser crotch and sang. 
melodiously throughout that 


spring. It must be admitted that 
there were some disappointed 
birds during the winter. Bo- 
hemian Waxwings and Evening 
Grosbeaks came-in flocks to 
seek maple seeds as food and 
were sorely vexed by The Tree’s 
nudity. : 
-Wrong Place 

It grew quickly, sending new 

branchlets into the sunshine. It 


grew so large that truck-drivers. 


’ coming into our yard are hostile 
about The Tree, as they are 
forced to back, and turn and try 
again to curve around it. The 

“driveway was planned in the 
time of one-horse buggies and 
doubtless served well during the 
era of flivvers. It suits us ad- 
mirably even now, as our car is 
a small English model. But fully 
adult Canadian cars and large 
‘trucks always have trouble ne- 
gotiating the brief circle around 
The Tree. 

“Why don’t you cut it down?” 
one beligerent truck-driver de- 
manded. 

-I Jed him closer to The Tree 
and showed him the red and 
green Suet-feeders hanging 

' from various branches, the _pe- 

destal feeder placed between the 

trunks and in full view of our 
dining-room | windows, while 
over the stand hangs.a roofed 
type of swinging feeder. Fats 
and seeds, bread crumbs and 
cracked grain are put out daily, 
and there is a continual coming 
and going of birds. The truck- 
driver watched the busy chicka- 
dees, nuthatches, and woodpeck- 
ers . sampling the fare on the 
winter’s day when he protested 
about The Tree. 

“I see what you mean,” he 
grinned cheerfully in penitence. 


Farm and Ranch Review—October, 1954—Page 13 


The tree of home... 
have you got one? 


By KERRY WOOD 


“Tl back up to the old bus and 
have another run at it.” 

In summertime The Tree has 
some unique visitors —- the 
orange and black Orioles, the 
vivid Myrtle and yellow warb- 
lers, sombre-hued but saucy 
Catbirds, a very lovely Rose- 
breasted Grosbeak, and a score 
of common birds such as Juncos 
and chipping Sparrows, Siskins, 
Robins, and Blackbirds. The 
feeders attract them, of course, 
but there is also a considerable 
attraction about The Tree itself. 
It provides birds with insects, 
with seeds, with leafy shelter 
during. heat and rain, and 
branches on which to perch and 
sing and sleep. 


We like our Tree. The young- 
sters do not climb on it, reserv- 


Hol 


ing it for the birds and the 
cheeky chipmonks, the red 
squirrels and the large-eyed fly- 
ing squirrels that come occa- 
sionally after dark. We've seen 
dainty White-footed mice climb 
the rough bark to get at our 
food offerings. Once I watched a 
long-snouted shrew going swift- 
ly around the base, dodging 
from one hiding place to. an- 
other as it sought crumbs of fat 
spilled from the bounty above. 
Through-the graceful filigree 
of its lower branches, we see the 
people and cars who come into 
our yard. It is a pleasant game 
of visual hide and seek and has 
its special appeal for us. 
Thinking about it today, I 
have been pleased at the prom- 
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At every home since earliest 
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vorite trees nearby. One was a 
stately spruce, towering in black 
silhouette against the red sun- 
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birch, like a white lady on the 
lawn. There have been flower- 
ing crabs of our own planting 
and the magenta blooms of a 
plum in 4 neighbor’s garden. I 
recall a lone poplar, an aspen 
with rustling leaves that made a 
pleasant music on quiet days. 


It is a good” thing to live in- 
timately with trees and know 
their moods throughout the 
years. The resurrection of green 
leaves at April, the summer’s 
maturity and the cool shadows 
under which we may take our 
ease, then we enjoy their color- 
ed loveliness in early autumn 
and reluctantly see them strip- 
ped under the gusty embrace of 
October, but we marvel that 
they are still sightly, standing 
bare during the resting time of 
winter. 


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T seems unbelieveable that 
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tired meant. But Isaiah says 
that the day comes when “Eiven 
the youths shall faint and be 
weary and the young men shall 
utterly fall. But they that wait 
upon the Lord shall renew their 
strength. They shall mount up 
with wings as eagles. They shall 
run and not be weary and they 
shall walk and not faint’. One 
of the grandest verses of this 
glorious Bible! 


Looking’ backward nothing 
stands out more spectacularly in 
my memory than the tragic fail- 
ure of Peters at the Empire 
Games. I remember his coming 
down that ramp into the Sta- 
dium.after running more than 

twenty-six miles of the Mara- 
thon, falling at the foot of the 

ramp, getting up to crawl a few 
feet, getting up with those stiff 
legs and going down on his back 

glassy-eyed with the horrible 
locked position of his knees so 
that his legs seemed to go as he 
fell down on his back. 


A horrible sight! To see this 


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inch — failing. Failing tragi- 
cally in sight of the finish line. 
A few yards to go. Drained of 
his power, Fainting, unable to 
go another inch, I have never 
seen man’s hopelessness more 
dramatically portrayed or man’s 
failure. 

Peters is a symbol of our gen- 
eration.. The whole thing is a 
parable. Time Magazine said 
of modern -writers that they 
suffer from their occupational 
disease “‘that disappointment is 
life’s only certainty”. Men are 
drained of faith and hope and 


strength. Someone, has called © 


us a “beat” generation. Mary 
Martin had a song that she 
made popular — “I’m stuck like 
a dope with a thing called hope 
and I can’t get-it out of my 
heart”. A lot of people have lost 
hope juSt as if you squeezed an 
orange and left only the rind. 


“But the Bible tells us that men 
and women who “wait upon 
the Lord” will not faint. The 
Bible gives us examples: Abra- 
ham, disappointed time and time 
again, yet holding. to his life’s 
pilgrimage and dying with 
glory. Moses, frustrated by the 
foolishness of his fickle nation 
of Israel in the desert, yet com- 
ing at last to the Promised 
Land. Job, praying “O that I 
might behold Thee, that I might 


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the hearing of the ear but now 
mine eye seeth Thee”. The Pro- 
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ness, always pointing to God’s 
hope. The Martyrs, crying 
“How long, O Lord, how long?” 
yet never fainting, so that the 
Bible ends with the vision “I saw 
the Holy City, New Jerusalem, 
descending from God.” 

And this is the promise of 
Isaiah, that in the bad times, 
when others are despairing, be- 
lievers in God will not only sur- 
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In “The Idylls of the King” 
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plodding along, most of us faint. 
The Bible speaks of ‘‘the de- 
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eighteen we worry. about ideals. 
At twenty about appearance. At 
twenty-three about morality; at 
twenty-six about making a good 
impression. At thirty about 
cost of living and pay. At thirty- 
one about business success, At 
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At forty-one about our political 
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Surely all of us have our prob- 
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ruled him by making him worry 
over imaginary disasters. If a 
friend did not arrive in time, for 
example, Anderson would be 
almost frantic, sure that his 
friend had met with tragedy. 
Some of us faint with the vex- 
ing frustrations of our jobs. 
Many of us faint because of the 
meaninglessness of life, because 
life doesn’t seem to have any 


point or pur Pore. Like Masefield: 
Peamedinea think that these wild 


lilies grow 
Out of a land where foot may never 


go ; 
Out of a life that we may never know, 
That we may never know”. 


. We need not faint like that! 

I want you to do three things. 
First, throw away the idea 
that life should be easy. As an 
old lad said to some college stu- 


dents, “If you are looking for a - 


soft spot you will find it under 
your hat”. Life is not easy. It’s 

like football. Football is a rough 
game and if you are afraid of 
getting hurt’ you’d better not 
play. So in life. If you are 
afraid of getting hurt don’t get 
married, don’t have children, 
don’t have friends, don’t invest 
your money. Don’t live! 

But people who are not afraid 
of being bruised can live victori- 
ously.One of the greatest men 
I ever met was the Japanese, 
Kagawa. He had been kicked 


out of the house as a boy by his ~ 


wealthy uncle because he be- 
came a Christian. He had con- 
tracted almost. one disease after 
another in the slums of Kobe. 
Emaciated, nearly blind, he is 
tranquil, possessed. of great 
peace and assurance. 

Isaac Watts was a little, insig- 
nificant fellow, often so sick 
‘that his life was despaired of, 
racked with pain, yet giving us 
our most radiant ‘Rymns of con- 
fidence and inspiration. 

When that great statesman 
and military genius, King Uz- 
ziah, died Isaiah was almost 
stricken with utter despair. 
Then in the darkness he saw 
that God was King of Israel and 
the only final hepe. He reas- 
sures us from his own experi- 
ence, “they that wait upon the 
Lord .. . shall not faint.” 


Day At a Time 


The second rule is. live a day 


at atime. Don’t you remember 


how the manna was gathered 


every morning? You couldn’t 
hoard it. So don’t look into the 
future. Don’t look back into the 
past. I am convinced that the 
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By TOM 


N° single description could fit 
B.C. farms. They are not 
They differ 
widely from The normal concep- 
tion of a prairie farm. In fact, 
you might consider many of our 
farms unworthy of the name. 
Yet they produce food for the 
people on the land and for the 
growing population in the 
metropolitan areas. 

Whether it is the small half 
acre of alderbottom tucked 
away in a small cove on one of 
the hundreds of islands stretch- 
ing up the coast line of the 
province, or a ten-acre fruit or- 
chard holding precariously to 
the plateau overlooking Okana- 
gan Lake, or whether it is the 
flat grain farm of the Peace 
River it is part of the farming 
picture of B.C. ; ne 

That agriculture can have so 
many varying faces in one pro- 
vince is difficult for many to be- 
lieve. Even those who have 
spent their early lives on a farm 
often find it hard to imagine 
that a few miles away others 
have been engaged in an entirely 
different field of production. 
And in most cases they have 
been too absorbed in their own 
problems to investigate. 


Future graduates of the 
Faculty of Agriculture at the 
University of British Columbia 
will have some conception of 
this great divergence of farming 
practice in their own province. 
It is the outcome of a discovery 
made a few years ago by a 
group of older graduates. In 
looking over the young men 


LEACH 


with new degrees they found 
that their only acquaintance 
with a commercial fruit orchard 
had been in their text book. The 
same was true of others as far 
as their knowledge of a poultry 
farm was concerned. So they 
set about to find some means of 
rectifying the shortcoming of 
the course in agriculture. 

You can lecture for hours at 
a time and the industrious stu- 
dent may make copious notes, 
but after it is all over his knowl- 
edge of the.country was still 
simply a description. They rea- 
soned that the only way to em- 
phasize the charging pattern of 
farming from the Fraser Valley 
delta to the semi-arid cattle 
range of the interior was to have 
him see it. 

The outcome of their plan- 
ning was a tour. It was more 
than a first-class excursion by 
train. It was a camping trip 
frought with all the obstacles 
that beset many of, the first 
travellers over the trail which 
clung precariously to the walls 
of the Fraser Canyon. 


That was not the idea of those 
responsible for the first tour. 
They chartered busses to take 
the students through the Fraser 
Valley with occasional stops at 
dairy farms, small fruit farrhs, 
dairy and fruit processing 
plants. and finally the Dominion 
Experimental Farm at Agassiz. 
Later that night they camped a 
short distance beyond Hope, 125 
miles from their starting point. 

The first day’s program rolled 
along fairly smoothly. Under the 


(Continued from page 15) 


only way to live happily, strong- 
ly, is to live foday as if you 
would never have another day 
to live. If you live in yesterday 
or tomorrow you are beaten. 

Now thirdly, learn the secret 
of renewal. If I don’t get this 
across to you, I might as well 
have said nothing. “They that 
wait upon the Lord” — only 
they — “shall renew their 
strength”. 

A certain woman repeats con- 
tinually the words, “Renew a 
right spirit within me’. When 
she is depressed and the devil 
gets hold of her, she says she is 
instantly delivered if she turns 
to God and says, “Renew a right 
spirit within me”. 

At the Festival of Britain I 
saw that amazing “Skylon” on 
the Thames embankment. That 
thin needle of steel reached 
right up into the sky for an in- 
credible height with no means 
of support visible until you 
came close and saw the cables. 
So with the Christian life. It 
stands like steel reaching into 
the sky, supported with the 
cables of prayer and faith that 
reach up to Heaven. 

“They that wait upon the 
Lord . . . shall not faint”. I 


think of Christ in Gethsemane. 
He should surely have fainted. 
He prayed that the cup might 
pass from ‘Him. He _ went 
through the frightful trial. He 
saw His faithless friends run 
away. He carried His cross up 
that horrible hill. God did 
nothing. Nothing. God stood 
to one side.. But Christ did not 
faint. He died in faith, ‘Father, 
into Thy hands I commit my 
spirit”. 

Somefay disappointment will 
come to you if it hasn’t come al- 
ready. Your faith will be bitter- 
ly tried. I beseech you, “wait 
upon the Lord”. Ask Him for 
strength. And at the end you 
will be justified. God will greet 
you and give you the crown of 
victory and His welcome. ‘Well 
done, good and faithful ser- 
vant’! 


Life is a battle. There is much 
to suffer and much to bear he- 
fore victory. But the last word 
is not with the Cross. The last 
word is with the Resurrection 
and the Ascension. So Paul 
looks at the Cross and exults, 
“Blessed be the God and Father 
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who 
hath begotten us again unto a 
living hope”. Real Christians 
don’t faint! 


direction of the Agrologists who 
had been called in as a provin- 
cial organization to complete ar- 
rdngements for all stops along 
the planned route they saw 
farms and farming at the coast. 
But as they started their long 
climb over Jackass Mountain in 
the Fraser Canyon they began 
to see a weakness in the frail 
busses. They could barely get 
over the grade. Later as they 
digressed from the main high- 
way, ever higher to the top of 
Pavilion mountain, they dis- 
covered that lightening the load 
by walking did not alleviate the 
fears of the drivers who, new at 
the task of manouvering: their 
busses along mountain reads 
quavered at the sheer precipice 
which reached for them on one 
side while they hugged the 
mountain’s. drop on -the other. 


That was only one of the 
otherwise wonderful experiences 
for the students, The unex- 
pected combined with other 
events of the tour to leave an 
indelible impression with them 
’ to ‘the size, the grandeur, the 
constant change which influ- 
ences the farming of British 
Columbia. 


The stories the students re- 
lated upon their return, the 
recollections recounted innum- 
erable times to others convinced 


everyone that this was the best. 


means of introducing the agri- 
culturist-in-training to the 
‘farming of the province and to 
impress upon him the great di- 
versification in conditions and 
farming. v 


The faculty were quickly con- 
vinced of the merits of this tour. 
Even though it required extra 
hours of preparation and was in- 
convenient in numerous ways 
for those who acted as guides 
they approved the addition of 
the tour as a part of the curricu- 
lum toward obtaining a degree. 
So the first tour set a precedent 
which will likely be followed in 
future years. 


This year at least, the tour 
was continued with 22 agricul- 
tural students loadgd down with 
binoculars, cameras, sleeping 
_ bags, and note books scrambling 
for vantage seats in the bus 
which was to take them over the 
1,000-mile route. But they dis- 
covered. early in the journey 
that not a single moment would 
allow for relaxation. It was not 


to be a holiday but a concentrat- 


‘ed. course in the study of B.C. 
farming and research into farm 
problems. 


The first day took them 
through the Fraser Valley. They 
saw how settlement was en- 
croaching on the farm land near 
the city. As they moved farther 


out they recognized through the. 


eyes of the interpreters the tre- 


mendous change which has 
taken place over the past cen- 
tury. They saw the country 


through the eyes of the settler 
who fought flood waters by 
building dykes, who had cleared 
the land by persistent hacking 
at the deep-rooted stumps left 
by the early loggers. . 


They saw the hundreds of 


cans of milk which dairy farms 


of the Fraser Valley produce 


-each day processed into dried 


milk powder. They were told 
how the more remunerative fluid 
market for milk could absorb 
only about half the milk the 
dairy cows produce at this time 
of the year. They learned that 
the majority of the farmers had 
invested 3% million dollars over 
the past 40 years to handle their 
milk. 

The investment in the dairy 
processing plants has increased 
with the larger production. It 
had to grow fast because within 
those 40. years butter-fat pro- 
duction multiplied from 1 
million pounds a year to 15 mil- 


lion pounds last year. 


Those figures left the students 
a little appalled but not lacking 
in appetite. At their next stop 
they were given a-brief insight 
into the operation of a modern 
poultry breeding and hatching 
business. But there the dullness 
of figures was compensated for 
to a large degree by. stacks of 
fried chicken served barbecue 
style. Most of them required no 
second invitation to have an- 
other helping. 

Fortified with a good lunch 
the tour moved on to the Do- 
minion Experimental Farm at 
Agassiz, B.C. For two hours 
they tramped around _ plots 
of cereals, grasses, small fruits, 
and the dairy. They were told 
about the studies being conduct- 
ed with new crops, new housing 
for livestock, new feeding ideas. 
Then they were told that if they 
can show the farmer how to 
produce two blades of grass 
where he formerly grew only 
one, one, then they must like- 
wise be prepared to show him 
what to.do with his increased 
production. 


That last bit of advice was 
contributed by Alex Mercer, 
general manager of the Fraser 
Valley Milk Producers’ Co-oper- 
ative who has been active for 
more than forty years trying to 
solve the problem of disposing 
of surplus dairy farm produc- 
tion, and to accomplish that end 
in a way which would provide 
the farmer some return for his 
effort. . 

By the end of the day the stu- 
dents who had seen so much 
during the few hours of travel 
had not sifted the ideas they had 
encountered. They had dis- 
covered many aspects of B.C. 
agriculture which they will 
ponder over at future times. 
The tour provided a gateway to 
greener pastures for many of 
them. It was suggested that a 
similar tour for farmers could 
do the same. % 


You don’t require a large 
bank balance to make a trip of 
this nature. It is a co-operative 
holiday and business trip which 
could mean dollars to a farmer. 
For those who will eventually be 
working for agriculture in gov- 
ernment or industry it is vitally 
important that they understand 
more than the text book can 
provide about the conditions 
where B.C. farming is carried 
on. s 


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Farm and Ranch Review—October, 1954—Page 19 


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LEE. STRAIGHT 


POPULAR OUTDOOR EDITOR 
OF THE VANCOUVER SUN 
SAYS... 


With few exceptions the ammunition 
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the hunters shooting it: 


Couple this with the fact that surprisingly —_|_ 
few hunters have their rifles properly 
sighted in and you have the reason ra much ~ 

shopping about among brands 
of gun fodder. Over a period of time, having 
tested most foreign. brands of ammunition 
in several calibres I found that in our more 
ecenomical domestic ammunition there is a 
wide range of bullets in a good variety of 
weights—more than enough for all hunting 
on this continent. 


There are light, pointed soft-point 
bullets for long range, fiat trajectory 
shooting. There are copper-point expanding 
bullets for quick mushrooming at extremely 
long ranges. And there are the old reliable 
regular soft ce for brush-bucking ‘and 
deep penetration in heavy beasts. 


I own four bolt rifles I consider capable _ 
of 134 inch accuracy. I’ve tried them with 
‘various brands of-ammunition and, I am 
convinced that it is not worth the time and 
extra expense involved in trying the more 
expensive non-domestic brands. As I said 
above, I prefer our Canadian-made ammo 
and no longer use any-other. I pera 
like the very dependable KLING-KO 
bullets used in it. 


Many hunters of my acquaintance have 
shot big game with a variety of calibres. 
The consensus of opinion among us is that 
there is more than enough variety of bullets 
and loadings available in our domestic 
brand to handle any game in North America 


When you take any shot in the field, you 
have three elements of error that decide 
a hit or a miss. Your ability to aim, your 
rifle’s inherent accuracy, and the accuracy 
of your ammunition. 


3 POPULAR BULLET TYPES 


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Pointed Soft Point in lighter 
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Among these three variables, the most long ranges. 
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ammunition. Keep your rifle sighted 
accurately, make sure it is of adequate - 
calibre for the job, aim carefully and the 
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f Rise crimson and gold of au- 
tumn leaves, the last brave 
efforts of the hardy “Mums” and 
Michailmas Daisies ring down 
the curtain in the outdoor flower 
garden and soon all gardening 
activities will be confined to 
greenhouse or window sill. The 
season has been disappointing, 
cool weather and excess mois- 
ture prevailing for lengthy 
periods. 


The long indoor season can he 
made more cheerful if we plan 
now to have pots of Daffodils, 
Hyacinths and. other Dutch 
bulbs in bloom from mid-winter 
on. A good deal of money and 
time is .spent on Dutch bulbs 
every year with unsatisfactory 
results in many instances. From 
reports received at the Morden 
Experimental Station it would 
seem that a lack of cultural un- 
derstanding rather than poor 
quality bulbs is the chief cause 
of failure. 


Buy Bulbs from Reputable 
Growers. 


It is recommended that Dutch 
bulbs be purchased from reliable 
nurserymen or florists rather 
than spend money on so-called 
“bargain bulbs’ from other 
dealers. Cheap bulbs are usual- 
ly ‘a poor investment. Order 
these bulbs now and lose no 
time in getting them potted up 
if you would succeed with Dutch 
bulbs this season. 


Suitable Containers 


Ordinary flower pots, five- 
inch, six-inch and seven-inch 
size are most convenient so- 
called Azalea pots; these are not 
so tall, are also very useful for 
growing bulbs. New pots must 
be soaked in water over night 
before they are used. Old ones 
should be scrubbed clean. Seven- 
inch pots are best for Daffodils 
and Narcissi, placing six bulbs 
to a five-inch pot. Tulips are 
best planted six bulbs to a five- 
inch pot. Hyacinths singly in 


four-inch pots or three bulbs to . 


a five-inch pot. 


Soil for Dutch Bulbs 

No specially prepared soil is 
needed. Ordinary garden soil, 
unless heavy clay loam, will 
serve if a dash of sand is added 
to give porosity. - A piece of 
broken pot is placed over the 
hole of the flower pot or coarse 
gravel may be substituted. The 
soil is screened through a half- 
inch sieve; the rough portion is 
used on top of the drainage to a 
depth of an inch or so, then the 
pot is half-filled with fine soil. 
The bulbs are pressed gently 
into the soil and covered. 

Tulips and Hyacinths should 
be covered by an inch or so of 
soil. Daffodils and the various 
Narcissi should have the tips of 
the bulbs showing above the 
soil line. Don’t pack the bulbs 
too firmly or over-crowd them 
or trouble from “heaving” will 


FF. 


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result. Be sure to leave an inch 
of space between the soil level 
and rim of pot otherwise proper 
watering will not be possible. 


Bulbs in Special Containers 


Charming effects may be ob- 
tained with Dutch Bulbs using 
fancy porcelain bowls which 
harmonize or sharply contrast 
with the flowers. Specially pre- 
pared bulb fibre is sold for’ use. 
with ‘these containers. It is 
more convenient than soil but 
yields no better results. As 
there is-no provision in these 
containers for drainage, more 
care is needed to kéep the com- 
post uniformly moist as satura- 
ae and dryness will be harm- 
ul. 


Water Culture 


The once popular method of 
growing Paper-white Narcissi, 
Chinese Sacred Lilies and Hya-, 
cinths in water has _ little 
merit. Soil culture is preferred, 
and, in most instances, far more 
satisfactory. 


Less Popular Varieties of 
Dutch Bulbs 


A number of varieties of 
Dutch Bulbs not already men- 


tioned are catalogued as being 


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These include Crocus, Snow- 
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moderate success if kept cool. 
Small pans, not more than six- 
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these miniatures. 


Storage of Bulbs 


After the bulbs are potted, 
they are carried to the basement 
and given a good watering. If 
the storage room is dark the 
pots need not be covered, other- 
wise sheets of brown paper are 
placed over them. A weekly in- 
spection is needed from now on; 
supply water as required. If the 

_ pots are dry for lengthy periods, 
blind growth or stunted blooms 
will surely result. Most of the 
failures may be attributed to 
neglect of the pots while they 

- are in the basement. 

Six to ten weeks will be re- 
quired to root most of the bulbs. 

Regardless of planting time or 


variety < No attempt shoulc be . 


‘made to force potted bulbs until 
the containers are filled with 
roots and top growth at least an 
inch or two high, 

The first move should be from 
the cellar floor to a position of 
light near a cellar window. After 
the tender shoots have greened, 
the pots can be moved upstairs 
to a cool room. Increased sup- 
plies of water will be needed as 
leaves lengthen and flower buds 
push up. When in full bloom, 
daily waterings will be needed if 
the plants are in a warm room. 


After-flowering Care 


The problem of: what to do 
with potted bulbs after they 
have done blooming is often 
perplexing. In this section of 
of the country the Daffodils and 
Hyacinths are best discarded; 


they are not hardy outdoors. - 


Tulips may be saved by gradual- 
ly drying them off, storing the 
pots in the basement until Sep- 
- tember when they can be set out 
in the open ground; planting 
them 6 inches deep. 


Staking Potted Bulbs 


. Slender willow wands are ex- 
cellent for supporting Daffodils 
and Tulips; they should be in 

‘place before the stems get top 
heavy. Four stakes to a pot 
will give ample support, Hya- 
cinths -are best supported by 
thrusting a heavy wire down 
through the flower spike quite 
close to the stem and penetrat- 
ing the bulb. . 


Varieties of Dutch Bulbs 
recommended for potting in- 
clude: 

Daffodils : | 
King Alfred. 

Narcissi : Cheerfulness, Laur- 
en’s Koster, Actaea. 

Tulips: Single early — Ibis, 
Olympiade, Prince of Austria. 

Tulips: Double — Mr. Van der 
Hoeff, Murillo, Peach Blossom, 
Electra. 

Hyacinths °: 
(blue), LaInnocenz 
Gertrude (Pink). 


Golden Harvest, 


Grand Maitre 
(white), 


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Farm and Ranch Review—October, 1954—Page 21 


iThe “*Marmorballor’” » « « where the Seagram Collection was shown. 


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visited by more than’ 31,000 Swedish 
citizens who came to see this colour- 
ful Canadian exhibition. 


Eyerywhere these paintings went 
»..north and south of the equator..; 
on both sides of the Atlantic... they 
won new friends and favourable com- 
ment for Canada. In sixteen 
cities along a 30,000-mile 
international route through 
15 foreign lands, more thana 


quarter of a million people came to 
see these original canvases of 22 of 
our cities, and from them gain a hew 
understanding of Canada and her 
remarkable achievements, 


During its year abroad, the Seagram 
Collection of Paintings earned for 
Canada thousands of columns of 
newspaper reports, editorials, re- 
views and pictutes; magazine articles; 
radio and_ television - broadcasts; 
newsreel films—all commenting on 
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By BEN 


dae meeting of the Colombo 
Plan powers in Ottawa 
early this month marked almost 
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ject, which will end in 195%. The 
Colombo Plan was first conceiv- 
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tion has cost Canada about 
$100,000,000. The total cost of 

{the scheme was to have been 

-jabout 5 billion dollars, with 3 
billions coming from outside, 
and 2 billions provided by the 
countries of Southeast Asia 
which were to benefit. 


In the beginning it was a 
Commonwealth project, with In- 
dia, Pakistan, Ceylon, Australia, 

«|New Zealand, Britain and Can- 
ada the countries concerned. 
Now this plan for raising the 
living standards of backward na- 


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tions has ‘been explained to in- | 


|The balance sheer: | 
on the Colombo Plan 


MALKIN 


needn’t turn to Communism 1n 
seeking a better life. The Co- 
lombo Plan has captured the 
imagination, of Commonwealth 
countries, and in Canada at 
least, the main criticism of Ot- 
tawa’s share is that this country 
has not been doing enough. . 


In the three years that the 
Plan has been in operation, Can- 
ada has sent $15,000,000 worth 
of grain, as an emergency relief 
project. To India have gone 
trucks and buses, locomotives, 
copper and aluminum ingots; to 
Pakistan, a cement plant, wood- 
en railway ties, the design for a 
dam and engineers to supervise 
the work, electric generators 
and control gates, three aircraft 
for crop spraying; and to Cey- 


lon, a fishing trawler, a refriger-_ 


ation plant, a fish reduction 
plant, construction of a power 
distribution line, flour, and two 
locomotives. In addition, 185 
persons have. received training 
in Canada in agriculture, en- 
gineering, , fisheries, medicine, 
railways, and so forth. 


Perhaps the most attractive 
feature of the Colombo Plan has 
been that, for once, the Asian 
countries were not suspicious of 
Western motives. There has 
been no real fear that it would 
develop into a scheme for get- 


ting rid of Western surpluses, or ~ 


for giving the West a grip on 
Asia. The fact that the original 
countries concerned all belonged 
to the Commonwealth no doubt 
contributed to understanding. 


Yet it cannot be said that the 
Colombo Plan is entirely a dis- 
interested one. For instance, if 
Canada now gives Pakistan elec- 
trical generators for a power 
project, it is a reasonably safe 
assumption that in the future, 
when Pakistan is in the market 
for similar equipment, it will 
prefer to buy it here, provided 
the price is competitive. Similar- 
ly with locomotives, buses, and 
other equipment sent to South- 
east Asia. Moreover, Asian en- 
gineers and technicians study- 
ing in Canada would tend to fa- 
vor Canadian machines and 
tools. Finally, improvement in 
living standards among one- 
quarter of the world’s popula- 
tion is bound to open vast new 
markets for every kind of Ca- 
nadian product. 


The Plan is more an invest- 
ment than a give-away program. 
The payoff may not come quick- 
ly, or even for a generation. But 
given a period of peace and con- 
tinual improvement in the econ- 
omies of Asian nations, it is 
bound to come. Just as the 
Tennessee Valley Authority in 
the United States helped im- 
prove living standards and de- 
velop a large new market over 
a vast area of the U.S., so the 
Colombo Plan is designed, in the 


-long run, to benefit the countries 
that give as well as those Li 


receive. — ~ 


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Farm and Ranch Review—October, 1954—Page 23 


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A Little Wheat— 


A Little Chaff 


By IVAN 


Péople who think t!nodern doctors 
don’t give enough personal attention 
to the patient should read what hap- 
pened to Charles Il, “The Merry 
Monarch”. ; 7 

February 2nd, 1685, while being 
shaved he fell into a convulsion. 
Twelve doctors were summoned post- 
haste and the following measures, as 
recorded by'a Dy. Scarburgh, for the 
benefit of the profession, were taken 
to restore him. As a warm up the 


patient was bled. No dice. So he was 


given an emetic and a _ purgative. 
Later he was given a second purga- 
tive followed by another enema; this 
one composed of antimony, sacred 
bitters, rock salt, mallow leaves, vio- 
let, beet root, cammomile flowers, fen- 
nel seed, linseed, cinnamon, cardamon 
seed, saffron, cochineal and “aloes. 
Didn’t do any good. 


Two hours later (probably waiting 
for his stomach to settle) another 
enema and purgative were given, The 
patient’s head was shaved and a blis- 
ter raised. A sneezing powder of 
hellebore root and a» powder_of cow- 
slip flowers was administered. This, 
recorder explains, was ‘to 
strengthen the brain”. : 

Still the patient showed no signs of 


recovery and cathartics were given at 


frequent intervals. In between times a 
soothing drink of barley water, 
licerice and sweet almonds was given. 


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The patient remained inert and was 
now treated to a plaster of Burgundy 
pitch and pigeon’s dung applied to the 
feet. More bleeding and purging was 
tried. No response yet so medicines 


of melon seed, manna, slippery elm, | | 


black cherry water and an extract of 
flowers of lime, lily-of-the-valley, 
peony, lavender, and dissolved pearls. 
Between these medicines and purga- 
tives they also forced down the pa- 
tient’s throat white wine, absinthe and 
anise, extracts of thistle leaves, mint, 
rue and angelica,” 


This was proving a most stubborn 
case so the doctors threw the rest of 
the book at good King Charles. He 
was given gentian root, nutmég, qui- 
nine and cloves, and to allay the pos- 
sibility of further convulsions, forty 
drops of “extract of human skull’, A 
rallying dose of Raleigh’s Antidote, a 
mixture containing a vast number of 
herbs and animal extracts, was forced 
into the helpless king. As a last re- 
sort bezoar stone, a concretion found 
in the intestines of goats, and sup- 
posed to have magical qualities was 
administered. 

The last dose given before his ma- 
jesty took off for a better world was 
some more Raleigh’s Antidote, pearl 
julep and. ammonia. 

Just before this he had been swig- 
ged with a most active cordial, but as 
Dr. Scarburgh relates “after an ill- 
fated night in which the monarch’s 
strength seemed exhausted the whole 
assemblage of physicians lost hope 
and became despondent.” 

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Things are “certainly not get- 
ting better for the farmers and 
we have been wondering if they 
are not growing the wrong kinds 
of grain? For instance, wheat. 
They should be growing puffed- 
wheat. In our. grocery store 
puffed-wheat is selling for $38.40 
bushel. At least for a_ 60-Ib. 
bushel, in packets of 4 ounces, at 
16c each, this is what we make it. 
You can beat this price some by 

- buying in celophane .bags, but it 
still works out to a pretty fair 
price. 

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We. know people who are trying 

to store up something-for-a-rainy-day, 
by saving all the. pennies, or all 
the dimes, or all . the quarters, 
or half dollars that they got hold 
of. This is a fine idea and one 
we always wanted to try out on a 
grander scale. We have always had a 
wistful hankering to stuff all the 
twenty-dollar bills we could lay our 
hands on into an old cornflake box and 
leave them there — at least until 
we got into our foolish forties. We 
wouldn’t -have minded doing it with 
the ten-dollar bills, or the fives, or 
even the ones, but somehow we never 
seem to have got by the wishful- 
thinking stage with the notion. The 
best we have been able to do is to 
hoard a couple of crumpled, old 25c 
shin-plasters, which are probably no 
longer redeemable. The moral of this 
story must be that, mighty oaks from 
little acorns grow, or (if you aren’t 
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your trip a pleasant one. Telephone 


HILDREN in the home have 

a right to expect and get 
happiness. They don’t ask to be 
born, and parents who bring 
them into the world owe them a 
harmonious happy atmosphere. 
No time is this more true than 
at mealtime since doctors claim 
that all food digests better if 
eaten in a happy frame of mind. 
We have all heard the old saying 
that “Laughter-improves diges- 
tion”. Making mealtime a pleas- 
ant, happy time will do away 
with much of the fussing on the 
part of babies and older children 
when certain foods are given 


lunch-box 


(CLOBEUR plastic containers 
can make any lunch-box — 
whether it’s bound for school, 
office or factory — as nourish- 
ing as a meal at the table and as 
gay as a picnic. 
A good general rule for plan- 
ning lunch-box meals is: Pack 
something hearty, something 
sweet, something good to drink, 
and something for a surprise. 
And at the same time, tempt the 
ye as well as the taste. 

A sandwich, naturally, is the 
backbone of most lunch-box 
meals, and there’s no excuse for 
dried-up sandwiches when they 
can be slipped into a moisture- 
proof polythene bag. If you in- 
clude a sandwich with lettuce 
-jand tomato, pack the buttered 
bread separately, with the let- 
tuce and tomato in one of those 


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You can’t beat carrot and 
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them. If everything is pleasant 
and mother is perhaps singing 
an amusing little song, when 
Baby tackles a new food, he will 
keep right on eating, smiling, 
gureling=. : and forget to 
‘fuss’. So start the habit when 
Baby is still very young and 
make it a rule never to let any 
unpleasantness occur at meal- 
time. 
dishes pushed onto the floor, but 
when these accidents occur 
avoid cross, impatient remarks. 
Doing so will pay in the long 
run, aS many a mother can tell 
us. 


Imagination in the 


and the polythene tumblers with 
watertight lids are excellent 
containers. Or you might use a 
polythene bag with a rubber 
band to keep it airtight. If you 
include a salad, pack the ‘dress- 
ing separately in one of, the 
small-size tumblers which seem 
made-to-order for the purpose. 
Milk, chocolate milk, and fruit 
juice can safely be carried in 
tumblers with snap-on lids, 
making an extra cup or glass 
unnecessary. : 
Desert should be a surprise 
treat, a satisfying highlight in a 
good lunch. In the days before 
plastic, a lunch-box dessert was 
restricted to fruit or cookies or 
a sometimes-squashed and 
crumbly piece of cake. Now 
there are wedge-shaped boxes 
for pie and water-tight poly- 
thene containers for fruit and 
pudding, all of them light to 
carry, unbreakable, and in a 


rainbow of appetizing colors, 


By-taking advantage of mod- 
ern plastics — and by adding 
a. dash of imgaination — a 
housewife can send her family 
off. to school or work with a 
lunch-box meal not merely 
nourishing and easy on the bud- 


Milk wil be spilled and 


Aunt Sal Suggests ee 


OOD mothers and teachers 
count it entirely wrong to 
have ‘pets’ and tkey strive never 
to show any favoritism towards 
any one member of their flock. 
And following on that same 
premise a writer should never 
count one reader’s letter any 
more important than another. 
Theoretically that is true. When 
_ I tell you that there were two 
letters that came to me last 
month that grabbed first hon- 
ors ... don’t censore me... 
not until you hear the details. 

Both letters came from Brit- 
ish Columbia...one from Mrs. 
M.M.S. and the other from Miss 
U.S. . ... Tl not embarass 
them by giving their addresses. 
What made the first letter 
stand ace high was the fact that 
she tells us that she has. been 
taking the Farm & Ranch Re- 
view ever since it started back 
in 1905. Just fancy that. And 
then she continued, “And have 
always enjoyed the Aunt Sal 
columns.” Well my dear Mrs. 
S. it may seem as if you’ve been 
reading them for half a century 
but. it is only 12 years. 

I can’t help wondering how 
many other readers there are 
who have been with us since 
that*long-ago date of 1905. We’d 
surely love to hear from you.. 
Mrs. S. is of the opinion that 
the jelly cake recipe I gave you 
a few months back is too fussy. 
So she gives us her recipe (and 
it too has been on the go for 
fifty years). 


Ye Olde Jelly Roll 


3 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 3 tblsp. 
hot water, one tsp. baking pow- 
der, one cup flour, pinch of salt 
and flavoring. 

Method: Beat eggs well/and 
add hot water to them one at a 
time, and beat well each time. 
Add sugar and stir. Add flour, 
baking powder, salt and flavor- 
ing. Pour into large pan 15 by 
10 inches. Grease and flour it 
lightly. When baked have jelly 
ready and a large platter to lay 
the cake on. Run a knife around 
edge of pan to loosen cake. 
Spread the cake with jelly and 
roll it up and lay on platter... 
no cloth needed. (Now then 


ladies, do you think you're agile | 


enough to do that? Not me. My 
mother could have, I'll bet. In 
fact the whole recipe sounded so 
like my mother that it made me 
very lonesome for her.) 

_ The second. letter was as dif- 
ferent from the first as could 
be... but it was a darling. I 
hope that Miss U.S. won’t mind 
if I quote part of it which ran 
thus: ‘I amonly 12 years in 
Canada but I have quickly 
learned the language ...I am 
very much interested in your 
pages and read everything.” I 
was truly touched by this letter 
and sent her back an answer 
without delay. I was so glad to 
be able to answer the question 
she asked in her letter and I 
have. a feeling that the hand of 
friendship I tried to extend to 
hor would‘ help her even more 


. these 
Birth, Man.. 


than the answering of her 
household question. 

When a certain problem 
comes up for discussion in these 
pages I’m ashamed to admit 
I’ve sometimes exclaimed, “Oh 
dear, not that again!” And then 
I remind myself that new read- 
ers are joining our ranks all the 
time and old problems of several 
years back may be new stuff to 
them. 

That was the way it was with 
the stickiness in home baked 
bread that is called ‘rope’. We 
really threshed that out about 
four years back, but now it is 
with us again. I’ve done a lot 
of research on this matter try- 
ing to discover whether any- 
thing new had been discovered 
about its cause and cure since 
we discussed it before. But ap- 
parently not. There seems to be 
two causes... the bacteria eith- 
er gets into the flour or pota- 
toes (if you use potato water in 
the sponge.) I didn’t express 
myself very well when I told 
you to ‘empty the flour contain- 
er and wash it.’ No wonder 
some of you wrote in asking 
how to wash flour. Dumb Dora 
me...I meant wash the con- 
tainer ... not the flour. The best 
letters that came in were from 
ladies... (Mrs. HS, 
. (no_ address) 
and Mrs. M.J.B., Wheatstone, 
Sask.) These three ladies gave 
detailed recipes for their bread 
making. 

Their recipes were almost the 
same...all three used just 
plain warm water (not potato 
water) for their sponge “and 
each of them added vinegar to 
the sponge. The amount differ- 
ed, but then the size of their 
baking differed too. But read- 
ing them over and checking 
carefully I would say that for 
a. small: batch...say three 
loaves, allow one tablespoonful 
of vinegar. 


Queen. Elizabeth Cake 


2s 

1 cup chopped dates, 1 cup 
boiling water, 1 tsp. baking 
soda. Combine these three and 
while they are cooling combine 
these: 14 cup shortening, 1 cup 
white sugar, 1 egg, 1 tsp. vanil- 
a, % cup walnuts, 1% cups 
flour, 1 tsp. baking powder, 14 
tsp. salt. Add the date mixture 
to it and. beat well. Pour. into 
greased and floured pan and 
bake for 50 to 60 minutes in 
oven 350 F. (Note: I used a 
square pyrex pan that has a lid 
and afterwards I left the cake 
in this pan with the lid on and 
it kept nice and-fresh in the 
“frig” for over a week. ) 

Icing: When cake is still Ag 
combine 5 tbisp. brown su 
3. tblsp. cream, 3 tblsp. bu ee 
% cup coconut. I cooked this 
for about two minutes in sauce- 
pan then poured it over hot cake 
and returned the cake to oven 
and let bake a few minutes 
more. 

Bye bye for now . 
good wish, 
i Aunt Sal, 


Fe every 


Farm and Ranch Review—October, 1954—Page 25 


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3 tsps. Magic Baking Powder 
1 tsp. salt 

11 cups fine granulated sugar 

% cup salad oil 

5 unbeaten egg yolks 

34, cup cold strong coffee 

1 tsp. vanilla 


3 ounces chilled semi-sweet 
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14 tsp. cream of tartar 


1 cup egg whites 


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mix liquids a little with mixing spoon; combine with 
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and beat to combine (a potato peeler shaves choco- 
late thinly). Sprinkle cream of tartar over the egg 
whites an beat until very, very stiff (much stiffer 
than for a meringue). Gradually fold egg-yolk mixture 
into the egg-white mixture. Turn into ungreased 10” 
deep tube pan (top inside measure) and bake in 
rather slow oven 329°, 1/4 to 1/4 hours. Immediately 
cake is baked, invert pan and allow cake to hang sus- 
pended, until cold. (To “hang” cake, rest tube of 
inverted pan on a funnel or rest rim of pan on 3 
inverted small cups.) Remove cake carefully from 
pan and cover with a brown-sugar 7-minute frosting 


in which strong coffee is used in place of the usual 
water, 


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MOVING? Be Sure To Notify THE FARM AND 


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Country, Dich 


OW the trees are aflame. 

The bush that that burned 
on the ancient Judean hillsidé 
for Jethro’s. shepherd could 
have been a poplar such as we 
see all around us these October 
days. Fall is here, the ‘‘fall of 
the leaf’, which is poetry for 
“Autumn,” and soon the out- 


-|door floor will be covered with 


a richly, coloured carpet. 


Seldom is October a disap- 
pointing month on the prairie. 


‘No season can touch our little 


Indian summer for vivid beauty. 
Of course there will be frosts 
and chilling winds foretelling 
winter’s approach, as is Na- 
ture’s immemorial way. But 
there are days like a kindly 
benediction that begin with a 
soft white mist in the morning, 
which dissolves and opens out 
to a noon of warm yellow, and 
that .closes with evenings of 
hyacinth-blue and rose-pink 
colours, full of the pungent 
scent of burning leaves. This 


gE Safety Sam Says... 


com pared 
to speeding 
in the. rain | 


} The trouble with rain is it gets on 
‘your windshield, so you can’t see 
' out, and also it makes the road 
‘Slippery. Particularly. in the win- 
tertime, when it’s apt to freeze.’ 
‘It’s easy to go slow when it rains. 
|All you do is lift up a little on the 
accelerator. You're likely to live 
jlonger that way. 


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and the tang of wood-smoke are 
as much a part of Indian sum- 
mer as Nature’s gorgeous pa- 
geant. ie 


The Indian discovered the 
advantages of red willow and 
used it for his camp-fire. Its 
smoke is least sooty of all the 
wild woods, and its slight visi- 
bility was often an advantage. 
It lights quickly with no volum- 
inous, thick black cloud like 
smudge-fire smoke, and as 
kindling it makes a fire starter 
for the old kitchen range. 


In Canadian history this 
drifting bluish-grey veil from 
the camp-fire has. often made 
important news. Prospectors 
and explorers, closing camp, 
have dashed water on its em- 
bers, looking back over the 
shoulder, Indian-wise, on de- 
parture, straining eyes to be’ 
sure it has been extimguished. 


We observe the full glory of 
the Autumn pageant, and gaze 
with delight and awe at Na- 
ture’s wonderful artistry, 
while recognizing the practical 
viewpoint of the scientific mind. 
Science tells us that these col- 
our changes have been brought 
about by the disappearance of 
green chlorophyll which causes 
the general yellowing of leaves 
of all deciduous trees. The bril- 
liant. scarlet and. crimson tints, 
of the maple for example, are 
caused by another sweetish sub- 
stance found in leaves which 
contain sugar and tannin. This 
red colouring matter called an- 


-throcyanin, builds up when the 


sugar is formed in the leaves on 
bright warm days followed by 
cold nights. Science is most 
wonderfully interesting, telling 
us how and why. 


So much intermittent rain in 
August created a_ condition 
which makes the outcome of our 
crop situation far. from bright. 
It is a problem we often have 
to face. So on with the fall 
work, cast worry aside, and 
take happiness from the simple 
comforts of home and_ the 
beauty of Indian summer days. 


Simply spraying a rug with a 
5-per-cent DDT solution will 
protect it from damage. by 
clothes moths and carpet beetles 
for a year or more. 


“Can | turn these in ona ping 
pong set?” seed ee sayein 


Let’s Ask Aunt Sal. :. 


A$ YOU likely know all the 
questions that I’m handlin: 

this month are those that cam 

to me during the month of 
August. You were surely a 
busy bunch of ‘askers’ and I 
was rather a busy ‘answerer’. 
We managed to come out even 
though. I sent a private reply 
to the majority of you because 
the majority of your questions 
concerned canning and pickling 
recipes and woes ... and I knew 
if I was going to-be of any/real 
help to you I had to get the re- 
plies off in time for the canning 
season. I’m just placing one 
canning query below, for it may 
be that you Aon't happen to 
know this either. 


Q.: Do pint sealers have to be 
boiled as long as quart sealers? 
(Mrs. J. K., Duchess, Alberta.) 


A.: Yes half pints, pints and 
quarts all call for the same time 
of cooking . . . 2-quart ones call 
for a little longer time. How- 
ever, if you are canning by the 
pressure cooking method then 
pints and half-pints do not re- 
quire as much cooking time as 
quarts. 


~ Q@.: Could you tell me if there 
is a doll hospital in Alberta? 
(Mrs. E.G., Nampa, Alta.) 


A.:Yes there are two real doll 
hospitals and one small ‘nursing 
home’... . Here are the address- 
es: 10540 - 101st Street, Ed- 
monton; 1327 - 2nd Sreet East, 
Calgary, Alberta. And a small 
one at Mrs. J.B. Salway’s, 444 
1ith St. Medicine Hat, Alberta. 
And while we’re on the subject 
we might as well repeat this one 
in Vancouver: 318 Granville St., 
Vancouver, B.C.- 


Ne 

Q.: A few years ago we re- 
ceived a price list from some 
man in central or southern Al- 
berta of different churning 
mechanism to fit many makes 
of washing machines. I think 


the man made them himself. I 
was not interested at the time, 
but now I am but cannot: find 


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the man’s name. I wonder if 
any of your readers could locate 
the name and address for me. 
(Mrs. P. D., Falher, Alta.) 


A.: How about it readers... 
can anyone find the missing 
man? 


Q.: Years ago I had the pat- 
tern for re-footing stockings 
with a foot like a moccasin in 
shape and all the seams were 
where they would not hurt the 
foot. I was wondering if any 
reader had this pattern. (Mrs. 
E.R.V., Langley Prairie, B.C.) 


A.: Again we call on all good 
readers for help. Don’t send'in 
the pattern but just write me 
and I'll contact you if I want it. 


Q.: Could you tell me how to 
make a. marshmallow icing for 
a cake like those we see in bake 
shops? It is about 14% inches 
high and they keep an electric 
fan going near by. . (Mrs. S.L., 
Boharm, Sask.) 


A.: This sounds to me like 
anicingI call: _ 


Party Inch-High Icing 


Soak 1 tblsp. granulated gel- 
atine in 3 tblsp. cold water for 
5 min. Then dissolve over hot 
water. Make a syrup of 1 cup 
white sugar, 1/3 cup hot water 
and pinch of cream of tartar. 
Cook until syrup spins a thread. 
Remove from heat and stir in 
quickly the gelatine which has 
been dissolved. Beat whites of 
2 eggs. Pour hot. syrup over 
them. Put mixture in top of 
double boiler beating constantly 
until mixture can be cut with- 
out running together. Add-one 
tsp. vanilla and pile lightly on 
cake. (Note: If this isn’t the 
one you mean write me again.) 


Q.: How do you ‘break in’ 
pots and pans of steel or iron? 
Also how do you ,treat alumin- 
um frying pans and pancake 
griddle so the food. will not 
stick? (Mrs. E.P.B., Calgary, 
Alberta.) 


A.: The only way that I know 
of breaking them in is to add a 
little vinegar (I’d say about 2 
tblsp.) to water and let them 
almost boil dry, then wipe with 
paper towels. To keep food from 
sticking to any frying pan a 
good old time remedy is to rub 
the pan while hot with a piece 
of raw. potato. When buying 
any new cooking utensils be 
sure to ask your merchant for 
instructions. Most manufactur- 
ers fiave printed instructions 
and different products require 
different treatment. 


Note: All readers are invited 
to send in their home making 
problems to Aunt Sal in care of 
the Farm & Ranch Review, Cal- 
gary, Alberta. If you wish a 
private reply, enclose a stamped 
self addressed envelope. Kindly 
limit‘ one question to each letter. 


‘There is no charge for this ser- 


vice. ee 


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August issue of the Farm & 
Ranch Review, namely —‘“‘This 
is no time for stirring up ha- 
tred.” It’s a true and sensible 
article, and' I say “thank you.” 

It’s true that the U.S.A. have 
made sad mistakes in its for- 
eign policies, particularly, and 
chiefly so, because of dishonest, 
alien powerful influences inside 
the country itself, seeking to 
promote their own selfish aims 
and plans at the expense of the 
American people. 

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To the Editor: 

I was very pleased at your 
editorial in your August issue. 
We are against Communism 
but what are we for. This is a 
very pertinent question. 

You hear every day about 
the blessings of democracy, and 
then we see a democratically 
elected government beaten by 
a military force sponsored by 
the chief exponent of Democ- 
racy. In passing I wish to say 
the U.N. showed 


itself to be 


affair. This was certainly a 
case of open aggression and 


should have been taken up by, 


the U.N. 
F. G. Nordgren. 
Lessard; Alta. 


Out-of-date pamphlets 


To the Editor : . 

In May, 1954, a booklet listing 
available publications at Ottawa 
was received. I checked off 
those publications of which I 
was particularly interested and 
qualified to appraise. The publi- 
cations received included many 
good leaflets. However, I was 
rather shocked at the age of 
some of the bulletins which 
were declared as being entirely 
up to date. In the field of ento- 


mology there have been many 


important advances in -insect 
control in recent years. The 
Jeaflet on the Beet: Webworm 
was originally published in 1920 
and republished in 1932. This is 
the most recent and up-to-date 


-~ statement on the control of this 


common pest! 

-- “Insects Attacking the Pota- 
to” was published in 1940. “The 
Control of External Parasites of 
Poultry and Control of Mites 
and Lice on the Poultry Plant” 
was published in 1939. Publica- 
tion Number 604, “Insects and 
Parasites of Livestock”, was 
published in 1938. 

In the field of Agricultural 
Engineering several of the most 
recent publications are 1943-45. 

_A Reader. 

Calgary, Alberta. 


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told me the following story: 


He ‘said a friend of his, a few days ago, went into the park near his 
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When he sat down she moved over to the end of the bench as though 
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He had noticed how unutterably lonely and forsaken she looked. and 
was curious as to her plans, for she appeared so dejected and beaten. 

_ He followed her at a distance to see where she was going and what she 
mighi be coniemplating. 
- She was walking aimlessly in and out of store fronts, but obviously 
was not interested in what was displayed. 

After following her a while he spoke to a strange woman and asked 
her would she mind asking the old lady what her name was and where 
she was going as he thought she might respond more readily if asked by 
another woman, rather than by a man. ; 


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I saw a mother duck and a 
bunch of little ducks running 
through the field. I ran after 
them and caught eight of the 
little ducks. I took them home 
and put them in a little pen. 
About an hour later I took 
them out of the pen and put 
The 
next morning, when I got up, I 
found out that all of them were 
still alive. The little ducks 
lived, but when they grew big 
enough to fly, they flew away 
from home and never came 
back. 

Mike Karpetz. 


Amesburg, Alberta. 


One day this spring, when 
there still was some.snow, we 
saw two round holes .in a snow- 


-| bank about two feet deep. We 


wondered how they got there. 
I decided to see what had made 
them. I was surprised to see a 
mouse nest. in the bottom of 
each one of them. They were 


a proud. : 


made of straw and feathers. 
From each of the nests, the 
mice had made tunnels under 
the snow, leading out of the 
snowbank. By the house were 
some pipes, and they had made © 
nests in them, too. 

Harvey Giesbrecht. 


Box 16, Plum Coulee, Man. 


Twice this year our dog came 
home with his nose and mouth 
full of porcupine quills. Daddy 
pulled them out with pliers. The 
dog must had suffered greatly 
during the process. We thought 
that he had learned to leave 
porcupines alone. But, no! 
About a month after the dog’s 
last encounter with a porcupine 
we were awakened early one - 
morning by his whining at the 
door. Daddy notice that his 
nose resembled a pin-cushion 
with many pins. Daddy got the 
pliers and pulled all the “nose” 
quills out. He wasn’t so suc- 
cessful with the mouth quills 


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_because, though the dog stood 
very patiently, his whinings 


were really heartbreaking, So |. 


Daddy stopped. But the dog 
would not have it so; he pressed 


his mouth against Daddy and 


with an imploring look in his 
eyes seemed to wish the remain- 
ing quills to be pulled_ out. 
Daddy did so. 
Myrtle Purdy. 
R.R. 1, Rich Valley, Alberta. 


One afternoon tm the early 
summer I came upon a mother 
gopher and her brood of young- 
sters. I watched them as they 
went cavorting around. The 
youngsters were not aware of 
‘the fact that danger lurked near 
them. They did not hide until I 
made a few steps towards them. 
But even then one youngster did 
not descend into its hole. It 
chirruped very happily. The 
poor mother became nearly wild. 
She pleaded with. it; she scolded 
it, all in gopher language of 
course, but with little effect. 


Finally she took the final step..- 


She came to her disobedient 
baby and began to wallop it 
with her both forepaws. The 
baby whimpered; then disap- 
peared into a hole. 

: Gordon Purdy. 


Tawatinaw, Alberta. 


One day in the spring I was 
on the tractor with dad when 
he was sowing wheat. The 
first round around the field we 
saw an old hawk sleeping in a 
tree and the next round we saw 
the hawk looking for food in the 
edge of the brush. The fext 
time we came around we saw.a 
piece of rabbit hanging on the 
tree beside the hawk. He was 
éating his breakfast he had just 
caught. e 

Barry L. Tarr, 


Craven, Sask. . Age 10 


_ One evening when’ we were 
eating supper, Dad looked out 
the window and saw a deer. It 
was just about on our porch. 
We all got up from the table 
and watched it. Our dog came 
out from the garage and saw 
the deer. He took after it but 
- the deer jumped our 6-ft. hedge 
and dog and deer went out.of 


sight. 
Glenn Heffel. 
Alliance, Alta. 


One day as I was going to get 
the cows I saw a badger. It was 
_ digging a hole on top of the hill 
about 20 feet from where I was 
supposed to pass. When I saw 
him there I didn’t go any far- 
ther, after awhile when Dad 
noticed I wasn’t coming home 
with the cows, he came to see 
what was wrong. He went and 
got the cows and took them 
home. Afterwards we went back 
to see if we could see the badger 
but he was gone. 
Raymond Lanoie. 
_. Picardville, Alberta. 
“Box 35,” Sabino ea ork heen pee ctr 


Farm and Ranch Review—October, 1954—Page 31 


RIETOR OCTOBER SPECIALS 


Top-Flight Items at Low, Low Prices 


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Don't GAMBLE—Be Sure 
-with An "OK" 


MONARCH-McLARY 


‘SPACE HEATERS 


Big 
Capacity MODEL No. 150 
BRAND NEW! Monarch-McLary Oil Space 
at. Heaters, providing clean, efficient heat with 
Low Speed rated output of 50,000 B.T.U. per hour! 
or apeee: Equipped with removable top grill, ““Micro- 


Pilot” burner, long life combustion chamber 
and specially-constructed handy  tip-out 
humidifier that is easily refilled without re- 
moving! Fuel tank capacity 5% Imp. gals. 
Shipping weight, approx. 170 lbs. A tre- 
mendous value! 


REGULAR 
$122.00 $3 950 
VALUE.__. ONLY : 


COTES RIFLE VALUES 


HUNTER'S 30-06 ENFIELDS 


SPECIAL 


OK HAMMERMILL 


Big Capacity at Low Speed. 

Sizes 10”, 13”, 187. 

Extra Heavy Duty — Precision Built 
throughout. 

Double Row oversize SKF Bearings 


throughout. 
Model 10A — 10” Hammer 


$943.00 
Drive) 
Model 18R — 18” Hammer 
No. 650 Power Take-Off 
‘3g — 6 matched. V-belts, roller bearing 


Mill, Price F.O.B. Cal- 

Model 13R — 13” Hammer © | 
Mill. Price F.O.B. Cal- $998-00 
Mill. Price F.O.B. Cal- 
HAMMERMILL DRIVE TRAILER 

ley: 

wheels for 15” tires—Drop 00 

Centre Axle — less tires $9 D- 


gary, only (Less P.T.O. 
gary. (Less P.T.O. Drive) 
$445.00 
gary. (Less P.T.O. Drive) : 
Fits any mill — includes 2-6V groove pul- 
F:O.B. Calgary .......--.--------- 


shipment surplus 
all big-game hunting \............ 
f\ L U MI N U M to take .22 short, tong or long rifle 
COMPLETE WITH 
WE PAY FREIGHT ON OIL RANGES 


80-06 Enfield rifles. A high- 
: $31.95 

A Genuine $100.00 Value .\.ONLY 
cartridges 27” tapered steel barrel. 

ROOFING & SIDING 
SEING e.2: 
25 SHEETS OR MORE ORDERS. 
(Very slight- 


‘Just arrived! New 
powered precision rifle for 
pe A .22 calibre, single-shot, chambered 
Front and rear sights. 
8.95 
$5 DEPOSIT FOR C.O.D. 


ly used) 
RIBBED— 26 24 
AUGE GAUGE 
BIEN ose ete SDE Reg. $299.50 
7’! x 26” $2.40 ONLY 
8’ x 26” al 
OK CUTTERHEAD MILLS = |,3, * 23) ao $49.50 
Immediate shipping from_ stock. 


For grinding grain and cutting roughage. 
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| With traveling feed table. As illustrated 


B Sizes 13” and 18”, @) FLAT ALUMINUM — Rolled in Coils ith 
Model 113G — Combination 13” Hammer] 24 Gauge — 30” width or 36” width. wit 

matt and Suter era Mill, travelling feed] 100-lb. roll covers approx, 375 sq. ft. high shelf. 
able, automatic gover- ‘} Per 100 lbs. “ENTERPRISE” 


nor, grain hopper, 3- $ ight Prepaid ..... ett 1. 
knife cutting head. .00 YORE Gabe! ; 
Price, F.O.B. Calgary ....... Made in halves to fit sides of roof. Canada’s Most Famous Name In 
e@ Model 118G¢ — Combination 18” Hammer] 5” apron on each side. Per foot ..48c¢ 


Mill and Cutterhead Mill with travelling | ROOFING NAILS— 
feed table, etc., as above $796 00 With sealing washers for a leakproof 
s 


anges 

e@ Equipped with famous ‘‘Thermojet 
Oil Burner’, 

@ With 110-volt A.C. 60-cycle_ electric 

motor and blower for the oil burner 

unit. 


Price, F.O.B, Calgary ........ job. 14b. required for each 125 5488 


Per lb. 
e All Hammer Mills and Combination Mills : 
come equipped with 2 screens, auger, pul- 
ley and dust collector. 3 sections of pipe 
(included in above prices). : 


Widely used by Rural Municipalities and large snow-plow elubs. Ideal for farm 
yarassand feed lots. Operates efficiently with any 2-plow tractor or larger, and 
mounts on all popular front-end hydraulic loaders. Proven under severest operat- 
ing conditions. Cuts the full width of 6’ 10”. Works.in damp or hard-packed 


snow, or snow with ice chunks. Expertly engineered and sturdily $ 50 
constructed to give years of trouble-free service. ’ 


“OK ROUGHAGE CUTTER 


The best roughage, cutter at the lowest | PRICE 
ee — all exclusive features — cuts hay, 
lls lofts, light power required, backed by 25% DEPOSIT 


iron-clad guarantee. SEN D 
CALGARY, 


INCLUDES: a, 
te Sire ai riven : 607- 2nd + f 
e ractor Hitch. : - ana * 
Knife Grinder. : 
Price, F.0.81 Capoary, $675 00 STRERT BARE Ru a | O) N. 
7. . be: f 


WITH, ORDER, OR, IF YOU WISH TO SAVE C.O.D. 
CHARGES, SEND MONEY ORDER TO FULL AMOUNT. 
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. 


“The Best address in the West for Value!” 


@ 4-181," Flywheel Knives. 
ALBERTA 
Only ee one 


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Choose any 2 of these six- 
selectioned. record pack- 
ages for only 25c 


Check the Ones You Wish 


CUIN THE GLEN MILLER 
MOOD 


Poor Butterfly 
American Patrol 
*String of Pearls 
Love Theme 

1 Understand 
Little Brown Jug 


CUTHE MAGIC OF 
GEORGE GERSHWIN 


Embraceable You 
Strike Up The Band 
S'Wonderful 
Somebody Loves Me 
Biding My Time - 
But Not For Me 


[) MEMORIES OF PARIS 


Parlez Moi D’Amour 
J’Attendral 

Bonjour Mam’selle 
Under Paris Skies 

Su: Le Pont D'Avignon 


COLD TYME 
FAVOURITES 


I’m Forever Biowing Bubbles 
There’ll Be Some Changes Made 
Bye, Bye Blackbird 

Charmaine 

Heart of My Heart 

That Qid Gang of Mine 


[BARBER SHOP 
FAVOURITES 


aes Only A Bird In A Gilded 


age 

Down In The Ojd Cherry Orchard 

While Strotling Through The © 
Park One Day ; 

Oh How 4 Miss You Tonight 

Sweet Genevieve 

I’ Wonder How The Old Folks 
Are At Home 


[] CANADIAN FOLK 
SONGS 


Green Grow The Lilacs 

Going Down The Road 
Gamblers’ Blues 

Old Joe Clark be 
Dark Is The Colour 

Going Down Town 


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. Little Shoemaker 


. Smile - 


We invite 


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CANADIAN 


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‘A remarkable offer to introduce you to a new 
idea in record distributing. 


The regular value of these 6 selectioned packages, if they 
were available in stores, would be $2.70 each, and the 
combination of any 2 of these records with 12 of your 
favorite musical selections, would be.a value‘ of at least 
$5.40. We will send you this $5.40 value, with no strings, 
conditions or obligations attached, for only 25c. 

Why do we make this offer at a price which obvi- 
ously doesn't even cover our postage, quite aside 
from the production of the phonograph records? 
We wish you to sample the extraordinary musical 
quality.of our records, and we wish to show you 
tie exceptional value which can be obtained by 
buying direct from the manufacturer. The middle- 
man is eliminafed completely, and we pass our 
savings directly on to you. 

Each month we prepare for your interest, a complete 
selection of favourite songs of various classifications for 
your enjoyment. For example, our selection for this 
month is the 18 current Hit Parade songs. We have 
arranged a package of the most popular songs in North 
“America, the very same.songs which you hear daily on 
your radio Hit Parade and which would cost you 90c for 
each song. ‘The entire 18 songs, under our direct from 
factory-to-you offer, are available to those who wish to 
take advantage of them, at a fraction of normal retail 
value. Yes, for the unbelievable low price of-only $2.98, 


18 TOP POPULAR HITS - $2.98 


Sh-Boom .. z 

Hey There 

In the Chapel in the Moonlight 
The High and the Mighty 

i’m a Fool to Care 


If | Give My Heart 

Fortune in Dreams 

Shake, Rattle and Roll 

This Old House = 

Sway r 

Cinnamon Sinner 

What a Dream s 

1 Need You Now 

Goodnight Sweetheart Goodnight 
Skokiaan 

They Were Doitig the Mambo 


18 TOP WESTERN HITS - $2.98 


This Is the Thanks ! Get 
Much Too Young to Die 


Top Hit Songs 


mailing charges. 


i enclose no money. 
(1 Populor. 
t understand that if {| am not delighted with the current selections | may return 


ou to Accept 


(2 of yourtavournte Musical 
\Welections 


we will send you, postage paid, the 18 most whistled 
and sung songs in North America, and you can secure 
your bonus with no strings attached at token cost of 
only 25c. : : 
You may listen to the current selections and your 
bonus selections for a period of 5 days in your own 
home. If you are not thoroughly delighted w:th 
your current selection, if you don't feel that this is 
the greatest record value ever offered, you may re- 
turn your current selection for a full and complete 
refund of all the money paid, and you may keep. 
your bonus selections as our gift to you for your 
trouble. 

As a member of our record club you will be offered each 
month, other packages of recorded music including such 
items as 18 favourite Christmas Song's, 18 favourite 
Canadian Folk Songs, 18 favourite Waltzes, and so on. 
In addition, you will have the privilege of securing from 
the club, the entire Popular and Western Hit Parade 
kept constantly up to date, at a price which cannot 
possibly be duplicated in stores. 

This offer is definitely limited, since our supply of 
bonus records is limited. Don't delay. Remember 
you may try these records entirely at our risk, and 
if you don't wish to keep them, you may refurn 
them for a full refund, keeping your bonus records 
as our gift to you. 


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THIS COUPON IS WORTH $5.15 


You get $5.40 worth of records for only 25c, with the purchase of ‘your monthly 
selection indicated at left. ; ; 


DOMINION RECORD CLUB, 
Dept.FR, 686 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ont. 
Here is my 25c Gs payment in full for the 
indicated by check mark, 

I enclose also $2.98 for which please send me the current club selection of the 13 
(1) POPULAR 
( WESTERN 


(Please see complete list at left of coupon) 


‘12 musical selections which | have 


[] BOTH SETS—$5.79 


Please send selections indicated C.O.D. I will pay postman 
C] Western. [| Both Sets — $5.79. 


You Can’t Have My Love 
Out Behind the Barn : 
Goodnight Sweetheart Goodnight 
Hep Cat Baby 
Thank You for Calling 
Courting inthe Rain 
Honky-Tonk Girl 
Sparkling Brown Eyes 
Looking Back to Sea 
. Go Boy Go 
Steel Guitar Ra : 
i’m Too Big to Cry 
Female Hercules. 
Don't Sell Daddy Any More 
Whatcha 
is Old House - 


them for full refund and keep my bonus selection as a gift; | also understand 
rhat you will send me each month, a nofification of new releases; if | am not 
interewed in securing thaf release, | will mail back fo you a stamped postcard 
which you will provide me with. Otherwise you will send me these records to. be 
listened to in my own home and | shall remit only $2.98 in full for those selections 
which | keep. 


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MODELS TO 60,000 LBS. G.C.W. 


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For a new truck or a used truck— 


Today® big buy in trueke! 


SEE the good-looking lines... the roomy, comfortable 
cabs of the new Fargo trucks. TAKE THE WHEEL 
and feel the handling ease and smooth performance 
that mean more trips with less effort . . . at less cost. 
COMPARE their rugged, reliable construction with 
that of any other truck you have ever driven. 


There’s a model built to fit your job. 


Sharpest turning ! 


Shortest turning diameter of any popu- 
lar truck—saves time and effort. 


Roomiest Cab! 
Extra-wide seats, plus plenty of head- 
room and legroom. 


New low- built lines! - 


Built low for better stability, easier 
loading, smarter styling ... yet without 
sacrificing road clearance. 


Wide-angle vision! 
Large, one-piece, curved windshield lets 
you see more—drive with greater safety. 


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